Stratagies How to Teach Vocabulary Abdullah al mohaya Main menu • 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 • • • • mime gesture facial expression action showing lexical relations • synonyms • antonyms • prefixes and suffixes words in context • • • • • • • dialogues role play drama stories songs rhymes & poems videos guessing / predicting • Example 1 • Example 2 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 matching words labeling words searching words sequencing words guessing words classifying words Review Games • • • • wordsearch games picture labeling crosswords puzzles 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 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