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PROGRAMUL OPERAŢIONAL SECTORIAL
DEZVOLTAREA RESURSELOR UMANE 2007-2013

POSDRU/87/1.3/S/62665
“Formarea continuă a cadrelor didactice pentru
utilizarea resurselor informatice moderne în
predarea eficientă a limbii engleze şi evaluarea la
nivel european a
competenţelor lingvistice”
Curs de formare

Oltenita
 SESSION 2
TEACHING VOCABULARY
 TEACHING VOCABULARY: GOALS
• to meet new vocabulary for the first time;
• to establish previously met vocabulary;
• to enrich previously met vocabulary;
• to develop vocabulary strategies;
• to develop fluency with known vocabulary
 WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO KNOW A WORD?
• Recognize it in its spoken or written form
• Remember it
• Relate it to an appropriate object or concept
• Use it in the appropriate grammatical form
• Pronounce it in a recognizable way
• Spell it correctly
• Use it with words it correctly goes with, i.e., in the correct
collocation
• Use it at the appropriate level of formality
• Be aware of its connotations and associations
 APPROACHES TO TEACHING
VOCABULARY
• Direct vocabulary learning
• Incidental learning
TEACHING VOCABULARY TECHNIQUES
1. Realia
2. Pictorial representations
3. Demonstrating the word through acting or miming-TPR (Total
Physical Response-)
4. Using Opposites
5. General/ specific meaning
6. Connecting words to a personal experience.
7. Explanation
8. Grouping words by collocations.
9. Changing, stretching and limiting the meaning of a word function how
it is used
TEACHING VOCABULARY TECHNIQUES
10. Semantic Maps-Teaching Multiple-Meaning Words
11. Translating the word into the students' native lg. l
12. Vocabulary games
13. Contextual analysis
14. Morphemic analysis
15. Dictionary use
16. Using computer technology to help teach vocabulary
(Game-like formats, Hyperlinks, Online dictionaries and
reference materials, Animations, Access to content-area-
related websites)
INGREDIENTS OF GOOD VOCABULARY WORK
• Memorable presentations
• Engagement
• Diagnosis
• Accuracy
• Confirmation of Understanding
• Full Coverage
 The right time to teach vocabulary
• At the beginning of the lesson
• Pre - text
• Mid text
• Post text
• After a production task
• Randomly