Summary Teaching Vocabulary

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Introduction.

This topics describe how to teach vocabulary. Whatever language is teaching always as teachers must take in account the main elements to form words. This summary contains a brief description and examples.

what is teaching vocabulary?

Teaching vocabulary consists of teaching form, meaning and use of words. The most important point about those elements are to understand how to use a word and where students can use it. Teachers can use differents ways such as using a context, aid materials, activities of spelling, a list of isolated words words, finally accordiong to the age students can understand concreted or abstracted words. For instance, teaching to child teacher uses a lot realia and concrete vocabulary.

How to teach vocabulary?

When we are talking about form is when teacher spell the word and use sounds and letter to identify the word. For instance, the word car, it has two consonants and a vowel , it has a one sound too. Teachers uses the blackboard to writte the word or listed words of examples. Teachers usually uses it to teach vocabulary in a context. That is not common to teach vocabulary without sense or meaning. So that, teachers teach meaning. Meaning is very important, here teachers uses flashcards, drawings , memory games or guessing like mimics . The car word is transport so teacher show a flashcar of red car. Students start to understand what is that. One style of learning is visual, it reaches to connet ideas and to concret things. Now, students are ready to use words, in this case, teachers use a sentence to place words as nouns,adjectives, verbs, adverbs or prepositions.

Techniques:

1. Context:

Teachers must use an event, scene, enviroment to teach vocabulary. For example the topic is Sports. Teacher will teach names of sports like basketball, soccer, skiing, hunting, etc. Also teachers use some words can describe elements of each sport such as name of people for example trainer, winner, athletes, etc.

Materials:

1. Lectures,

2. Stories

2. Description Technique:

Teachers use meaning to describe words. For example CAR:

noun

1.an automobile.

2. a vehicle running on rails, as a streetcar or railroad car.

3. the part of an elevator, balloon, modern airship, etc., that carries thepassengers, freight, etc.

4. British Dialect. any wheeled vehicle, as a farm cart or wagon.

5. Literary. a chariot, as of war or triumph.

6. Archaic. cart; carriage.

Materials:

1. Dictionary

2. Flash card with drawings and meaning.

3. Realia:

This technique consists in using objects in small size or real size. Students can touch, smell, see, feel and taste them. It is really usuful. For example: The food. Teachers can bring to class an apple, orange, etc.

Material:

1. Objets

2. Flashcards

3. Fiood

4. Miming:

Teacher can play mimics. Using flashcard and making groups students can use their body parts without speak students performe words.

5. Synonym

Teacher can use others words similiar to the original word: For example Food- meal, pretty- beautiful.

6. Opposite:

Teacher uses contrary words to teach vocabulary.

For example: old-new,,

fat-thin,

up-down.

7. On the board :

Teachers use the board to draw words.

8. Drawings (Pictures)

Teachers uses flashcard or students can draw them in their notebook.

9. Wall Charts:

Teachers can decorate class using posters with a picture where are many elements like people, city, colors, etc. Students can understand in a better way.

10. Scales:

In this case, teachers use numbers to identify porcent of words. For example: If teachers teach adverbs of frecuency, feelings.

Adverbs: Always 100%

Often 50%

sometimes 50%

never 0 %

Felings:

Love 100 %

like 80%

dislike 25%

hate 0 %

Activities for teaching vocabulary:

Using Flash card:

1. Showing the flashcard.

Teacher uses a flashcard showing the word and the picture.

2. Revealing Flahscard:

Teacher use a cover in front of the picture, then show the picture and the word. While the another word is still covered until teacher finishes showing pictures.

3. Moving flashcards:

Teachers wave flashcards side to side and then students reapeat the word.

4. A peep hole in the front paper.

Students can just see a little parts of the picture of the word so teacher slowly move the hole and students guessing will able to discover the word.

5. Mexican Wave:

Teacher show the word and the pictures, then teacher pronounce the word. Last each student passes the word over his or her head reapeating the word.

6. Point at, touch and lift

Teacher name some words. Students have to identify the word looking for each of them. At the beginning students point at the correct word using their index finger, then touch the picture with her or his hand and finally lift the flashcard.

Advantages.

There are many advantages using the laid material. Students can memorize words in short time. They will able to identify confusing words like homophones. In this case, the sound is the same but his written is different. Their context is different too.

Using flashcard student can learn in order and can remeber in easy way.

Using games students can speed up their minds to thnjk quickcly.

Describiing pictures students can understard contex and differences .

Working in groups or individual students can learn vocabulary because they will able to help each other or messuare himselfs if they know.

Disavantages:

Students has to memorize a lot vocabulary that might be bored or exhaust for them.

If teacher does not use visual object is more difficult for students to assimilate words.

Depending of kind the book or material to study student can be frustated duo to they do not have a computer or radio to listen again spelling words.

If students in class do not have a specific time to repeat words there will be unable to use them again or can forget easily the list of words.

Conclution:

Teacher can use different ways to teach vocabulary making activities that allow students to memorize, understand and apply them in differents manners like making a sentences, using vocabulary accoding to context, etc. Students learn better viewing words, touching objects and repeating the words. As teacher can improve our activities in order to achive goals and competences. Using the correct manner to teach student in short time can understand vocabulary and identify them in real contex.