Teaching vocabulary

Teaching vocabulary的思维导图，内容有What does knowing a word involve、Ways of presenting vocabulary、Ways of consolidating vocabulary.

Teaching vocabulary

• Understanding vocabularyand vocabulary learning
  • Perhaps the most common way for Chinese learners of English to learn vocaburary ISthrough memorisation of a list of words and their Chinese equivalents with a lot of oralrepetitions of each word. Many learners may have found this kind of vocabularylearning very ineffective as they often find that they still cannot understand the meaningof the text they read although they know the Chinese equivalent of each word.
• What does knowing a word involve
  • Most language learners begin learning another language by starting with ability and the learning of vocabulary seems to accompany a learner throughout the learning process even after all the basic gram medical rules have been learned
  • What does it mean to know a word?
    • A simple answer to this question would be
      • Pronunciation and stress
      • Spelling and grammatical properties
      • Knowing it's meaning
      • Knowing a word means knowing how and when to use it to express the intended meaning
  • Denotative meaning
    • obvious
    • shallow
    • commonly used
    • easy to find equivalent concepts
  • Connotative meaning
    • Partly depend on the understanding of the listener
    • subtle
    • Based on the background knowledge
  • Collocations
  • synonyms、antonyms、hyponyms
  • Active and productive vocabulary
• Ways of presenting vocabulary
  • Provide a visual or physical demonstration whenever possible
  • Provide a verbal context
  • Teaching vocabulary in chunks
  • Think about the context in real life where the word might be used
• Ways of consolidating vocabulary
  • When students study vocabulary individually, very often it is rote learning whose effectiveness is seldom guaranteed
  • Labelling
  • Spot the difference
  • Describe and draw
  • Play a game
  • Use word series
  • Word bingo
  • Word association
  • Find synonyms and antonyms
  • Categories
  • Using word network
  • Using the Internet resources for more ideas
• Developing vocabulary learning strategies
  • Review regularly
  • Guess meaning from context
  • Organise vocabulary lary effectivelyl
  • Use a dictionary
  • Manage strategy use