Vocabulary
(and other) Teaching Activities
This website
began as a way to help teachers stay abreast of TESOL members'
vocabulary teaching activities and ideas, though, as you can see, this goal has been expanded to incorporate EAP reading and writing. On this
page you will find links to two different vocabulary
sessions from TESOL 2005. At the bottom of the
page is a link to handouts presented at
TESOL 2004, along with other information on vocabulary
teaching resources. If you have some ideas you
would like to share with your virtual colleagues,
please e-mail them, and they will
be added as soon as possible.
BC. TEAL, 2009
SFU PD Session, November, 2008
TESOL 2007 Reading into Writing Activities
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Book reviews:
If you have not yet seen the following vocabulary titles, you might be interested in these reviews that I wrote for the HEIS newsletter.
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TESOL
2005 Academic Vocabulary Activities that
Promote
Retention and Retrieval
Introduction
This colloquium presents classroom tasks that recycle
vocabulary in order to promote word retrieval and continued
independent vocabulary acquisition. Underlying each presentation
is a call for a) explicit instruction in vocabulary, b)
multiple encounters with words, c) semantic clustering,
and d) deep processing. Presenters offer rationales for
choices made and provide handouts outlining pertinent
steps, tips, and caveats to inform teachers’ classroom
practices.
A
list of useful readings on vocabulary teaching and learning
can be found here:
Margi Wald, College
Writing Programs, University of California, Berkeley,
<mwald@berkeley.edu>
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Rich
Instruction: A Systematic Approach to Teaching Vocabulary
A cumulative approach emphasizing generative processing
through exposure to multiple contexts and the active use
of new vocabulary. This presentation looks at the various
components necessary to "knowing" a word and
will describe exercises, emphasizing gap-fill exercises,
to promote acquisition through repeated exposure, retrieval
and use of vocabulary at regular intervals in listening,
speaking, reading, and writing activities. (Click title
for Gerry's PowerPoint presentation.)
Gerry Luton, English
Language Centre, University of Victoria, <gluton@uvic.ca>
NEW!!
Gerry has put
together a set of exercises using AWL vocabulary. Click
here to
check it out.
Encouraging AWL Vocabulary
Use Beyond the Classroom
Students thematically reorganize Academic Word List "AWL#
words and collaborate in semantic analysis activities that
develop associations within AWL word families and between
those families and related words. The activities are designed
to maximize the amount of processing and offer multiple encounters
with the words.
Trial,
Error and Enlightenment
This presentation describes a cross-curricular approach
that attempts to weave vocabulary recycling tasks across
the two courses in an EAP program. The presenter will
highlight a selection of worksheets & quizzes that
introduce, recycle, and test vocabulary to encourage multiple
exposures to and deep processing of target vocabulary
in ways that are motivating and useful. Tips, caveats,
and future projects will be discussed. (Click on title
for Marti's PowerPoint presentation.)
Marti Sevier, English
Bridge Program, Simon Fraser University, <msevier@sfu.ca>
Integrating
Corpus-Based Vocabulary Activities into an Academic Writing
Course
Activities from advanced EAP writing classes that use narrow
reading and online vocabulary resources to help students
learn how to generate mini-corpora relevant to the course
and
their own interests, and to use these corpora for noticing
and recycling frequently used vocabulary and grammar patterns.
Included are activities to introduce students to online
resources and ways to integrate activities into a content-based
course. (Click on title for John's PowerPoint presentation.)
John Bunting,
Dept. of Applied Linguistics/ESL, Georgia State University,
<jbunting@gsu.edu>
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Jazz
Up Your Vocabulary Presentation
with
thanks to
Keith Folse, University of Central Florida
Helen Huntley, West Virginia University
Donna Obenda, University of North Texas |
TESOL 2005 Applications Fair:
The Compleat Lexical Tutor
The Compleat Lexical
Tutor (Lextutor)from Tom Cobb at the University of Quebec at Montreal
is a great asset for the teacher of academic vocabulary. Find
it here. For a description of The
Compleat Lexical Tutor, see my review
in TESL-EJ.
EAP Tasks
using Lextutor:
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