Teaching of vocabulary:Look for clues around the word to help with the meaning;Substitute the guess into the sentence to see if the meaning of the sentence is clear。
developing the learners’s understanding of what
Learning words mean
showing the learner how to learn the word effectively
developing the learners as independent word learners.
Teacher need to consider
Boundaries between conceptual meaning
Pronuncication
Polysemy
Homonymy
Synonymy
Antonymy
Affective meaning
Style, register, dialect
Translation
Chunks of language
Grammar of vocabulary
Superordinates
Word families
Word Formation
While teaching
Stages in word learning
Stage 1: connection between the meaning and form; easy; can be done effectively by rote memorization
Stage 2: knowing when to use the word and not to use it, its word relationships, its shapes of meaning and so on; difficulity; calls for longer practice with the words embedded in meaningful, appropriate and cultural contexts.
Memory strategies to aid learning
Creating mental linkage
Applying images and sounds
Reviewing
Employing action
Foster autonomy in vocabulary learning
Self-initiated independent learning
planned, active and motivated learning and exposure to language outside the classroom
word-grouping
Making notes
Word card.leafing through a dictionary
Planning
Recording and listening
Regular revision
Fomal practice
sytematic learning and vocabulary practice; accurate reproduction)
Loud repetition
Bilingual dictionary
Testing onself
Noting new items in class
Functional practice
based on context or social interaction
Remembering words while watchingTV/reading
Using known word in different contexts
Looking for definitions
Listening to songs and trying to understand
Using words in conversations
Practice with friends
Memorizing
Using pictures, illustrations
Associations with L1
Looking for similarities between words
Visualization
Guessing from context
Notice its part of speech
Look for clues around the word to help with the meaning
Substitute the guess into the sentence to see if the meaning of the sentence is clear