When you are teaching vocabulary you need to take into account the six principles about "Teaching Vocabulary":
Principles
1. Choose useful words:
The teacher should chose useful words that the students can use in their daily conversations. To get that there are two different lists of useful words: The General Service List (2000 words) and the Academia Word List (which contains the most frequent academic vocabulary).
2. Let the learners do the work:
It is important that the teacher provides definitions and meanings of difficult words but the teacher needs to allow that students learn the vocabulary through different activities.
It is important that the teacher provides definitions and meanings of difficult words but the teacher needs to allow that students learn the vocabulary through different activities.
3. Focus on different aspects of a word:
There is much more to a word than just its meaning. For example, amongst other things, students can learn a word’s stress (accent), its collocations and word family members, its grammatical patterns and word parts etc.
4. Provide meaningful learning opportunities:
Provide the learners the opportunity to use the new vocabulary in a conversation, dialogue. Also, allow that the students hear or to see target words in a meaningful context, and opportunities to use target words in meaningful writing and speaking tasks.
There is much more to a word than just its meaning. For example, amongst other things, students can learn a word’s stress (accent), its collocations and word family members, its grammatical patterns and word parts etc.
4. Provide meaningful learning opportunities:
Provide the learners the opportunity to use the new vocabulary in a conversation, dialogue. Also, allow that the students hear or to see target words in a meaningful context, and opportunities to use target words in meaningful writing and speaking tasks.
5. Implement a regular testing Schedule:
Testing can be used to give students feedback on their success and/or failure to learn and use the target words and motivate them to study vocabulary.
Testing can be used to give students feedback on their success and/or failure to learn and use the target words and motivate them to study vocabulary.
6. Be patient with their learners:
Sometimes, the students forget the vocabulary. So, the teacher needs to be patient and try to provide the students opportunities to review the new vocabulary.
Sometimes, the students forget the vocabulary. So, the teacher needs to be patient and try to provide the students opportunities to review the new vocabulary.
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