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How to Teach Vocabulary

Choriyeva Farzona
206 group
• Teaching Tips:

– Step One: presenting new words


– Step Two: helping students
remember new words
– Step Three: making sure
students make the new words
their own
Using visual images
Other techniques Using gestures
and actions

Step One:
presenting new words

Words in context

Guessing/predicting Showing lexicial relations


using visual images

• realia
• pictures
• masking
• drawing
• scales
using gestures and actions

• mime
• gesture
• facial expression
• action
showing lexical relations

• synonyms
• antonyms
• collocation
• prefixes and suffixes
words in context
• dialogues
• role play
• drama
• stories
• songs
• rhymes & poems
• videos
Other techniques
• Using a dictionary
• Explaining
• Describing
• Defining the context
• Translating
Using memorizing games & activities

Step Two:
helping students
remember new
words

Learning with friends Using review games


usinge memorizing
games and activities
• giving directions
• picture dictation
• labeling words
• searching words
• sequencing words
• guessing words
• eliminating words
• classifying words
• Matching words
Review Games
• Word search games
• picture labeling
• Bingo
• dominoes
• puzzles
• charts or survey for their peers
• crosswords
Socio-affectively, students can
• practice words with a classmate or in a group
• teach a word to a member of the family or peer
• make and play word game with friends
• peer test
Vocabulary record system

Step Three:
making sure students
make the new words
their own
Personalizing the new words
Vocabulary record system-1
• Vocabulary books
– in an alphabetical order
– by topic or situation
– by grammatical groups
– by color sets
– by story features
Vocabulary record system -2
• personal dictionary (word
notebooks)
– marking word stress
– adding pictures
– putting an L1 translation
– putting the word into
context
– adding a synonym
– mapping a word family
personalize the new words
• Keeping a learning log (blogs)
• Keeping a diary (blogs)
• Creative writing by using newly-
learned words or phrases
• Looking for recently learned words in
storybooks, the Internet, the
newspapers, etc., and noticing how
they are used.
Meta-cognitively,
learners learn how to
• self-test
• look for patterns in words
• plan and organize a vocabulary record
keeping system
• Learn words in their preferred ways
• reflect on learning and reviewing
regularly
• monitor vocabulary learning
Online Resources
• Teaching Vocabulary:Two Dozen T
• English Vocabulary Word Lists
with Games, Puzzles and Quizzes
• LearnEnglishKids
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