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How to Teach Vocabulary
Abdullah al mohaya
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• 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
• pictures
• masking
• drawing
using gestures and actions
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mime
gesture
facial expression
action
showing lexical relations
• synonyms
• antonyms
• prefixes and suffixes
words in context
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dialogues
role play
drama
stories
songs
rhymes & poems
videos
guessing / predicting
• Example 1
• Example 2
Other techniques
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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
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giving directions
picture dictation
matching words
labeling words
searching words
sequencing words
guessing words
classifying words
Review Games
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wordsearch games
picture labeling
crosswords
puzzles
Socio-affectively, students can
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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
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
Thank you for your
attention
Abdullah saluman almohaya