learning contextualized vocabulary with internet tools
DESCRIPTION
While reading novels, students cannot possibly look up all the words that are new to them. By understanding the story, they gradually develop skills to understand the words in the context presented. This presentation demonstrates how visual dictionary and online learner’s dictionaries help students understand (and pronounce) new vocabulary items, and practice exercises in Quia or Hot Potatoes give students opportunities for incidental learning while practicing target vocabulary.TRANSCRIPT
Learning Contextualized Vocabulary with Internet Tools
Gaby Rinkerman&
Laurie MoodyPassaic County Community College
Vocabulary Acquisition Research
• Dictionary Use & Guessing from Context• Incidental Learning & Explicit Instruction • Visual Images & Other Connections• Words & Collocations • Recycling Vocabulary• Testing: Contextualized Meaning vs.
Dictionary Definition
Reading Unabridged Novels
Online Dictionaries for Vocabulary Acquisition
http://blachan.com/shahi/ http://images.google.com/
http://www.learnersdictionary.com/ http://www.wordreference.com/
How many words do you know in YOUR language?
How many of those words did you look up in your DICTIONARY?
Strategies for: Noticing
Guessing from Context
Guessing Meaning From Context
Make the Movie in Your Mind
• Preview Setting: Time and PlaceImagesStories (King Arthur)
• Imagine the CharactersDrawings
Vocabulary Learning Journals I
Vocabulary Learning Journals II
• Out of Class, Students Select 5 vocabulary items from reading.
Write sentence where word(s) found.• In Class, Students
Write sentences on the board.• In Class, Teacher
Signals clues to meaning (context & word). Discusses meaning in context of story.
Maintains list of sentences.
Practice
http://www.quia.com/pop/154955.html
Partners practice in class.Individual practice at home.
Testing I
Testing II
Testing III
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