Lesson Plan Terms About Teaching New Vocabulary
Alhamdulillah, I'm very happy to say hello to all my moslem English teachers. Our article now is still about vocabulary.
Effective vocabulary teaching should include at least some, if not all of the important vocabulary definitions for presenting and practicing new vocabulary.
Consider these important teaching vocabulary terms your next practical steps for additional ways for practicing vocabulary. The more students recognize and work with the target vocabulary, the easier it will be to also recognize those target words in context.
Presenting New Vocabulary
- Exposure. This is the first procedure in a vocabulary lesson plan where students are tuned into those words you want to present.
- Inductive Ways of Presentation. In order to get to a word, teachers show a picture and talk about it. This works differently from deductive methods (more commonly used with grammar related teaching contexts) where teachers isolate the rule and then follow-up with a number of practice activities.
- Issues of Fluency and Accuracy. In fluency, the emphasis is placed on meaning whereas accuracy emphasizes form and structure.
Practicing New Vocabulary
- Teaching vocabulary in a context. The aim of a context is to establish some kind of frame within one of the following text types such as a rap chant, a song or a picture, a story, etc. The reader is encouraged to understand, interpret, make sense, decode (i.e. what does each phoneme sound like?) and decipher (i.e. putting the parts together in order to solve the information gap between decoding and deciphering).
General Vocabulary Teaching Terms
How well have you related to these vocabulary teaching terms in your lesson plan? Consider the following implications for classroom instruction.1. Automaticity - The ability to read a word effortlessly. Do your students need more practice with phonological and decoding?
2. Gradation - Begin with easy activities and work your way up to more complex activities. This approach works for all levels regardless of their knowledge and ability.
3. Cost Effectiveness - maximum profit for minimum cost. (i.e. Using a vocabulary activity again and again for different purposes) Teaching vocabulary can get boring! It's important however to recycle vocabulary in a number of creative and interesting ways.
4. Inference - a vocabulary teaching term related to the aspect of vocabulary and context.
- To relate to something beyond the text.
- "I'm thinking of something". Teachers describe the word and students guess its meaning. Teachers should try to encourage students to use educated guessing based on prior information or, on worldly knowledge.
Finally, don't be afraid to try new and unusual ways to teach vocabulary. Use these vocabulary teaching terms as guidelines. Sometimes the most meaningful vocabulary lessons happen when you are the most spontaneous.