Teaching Vocabulary Antar Abdellah

Skills: Listening – Speaking- Reading – Writing

Elements: vocabulary – grammar- pronunciation – culture;

-adults: placement test “all levels test”… reading, grammar, writing, listening,… Scope and sequence

Language skills & language elements

Types of vocabulary According to function: Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs,

conjunctions, prepositions School, sleep, happy, quickly, and, on According to word structure: Roots, prefixes, suffixes Auto-bio-graph-y Cv: curriculum vitae

Common prefixes Mal- Anti Mis- Non- Pseudo Contra, contro Dis Micro- Macro- Semi-,hemi-

Bi- Du- Mono- Multi- Tri- Pre- Post- Bene- Hydro- Hyper Hypo-

Common suffixes

nouns adjectives

-tion, sion, ion -age -ance,ence -cy -ism -ment -tude -ness -ity -ary,ory -ship -hood -dom -ery

-able,ible -ic -ern -ish -al,ial -y,ly -an -ive -ous,ious -less -ate -ful

Familiarize Ss with teaching techniques Enabling Ss to select teaching techniques Encouraging Ss to participate in vocabulary

activities Encouraging Ss to infer meaning of new

vocabulary Training Ss on using drills in teaching

vocabulary

Objectives of vocabulary instruction

1- point to the object, 2- pronounce the word 3- Ss repeat 4- use different techniques 5- write the word 6- Ss read the word 7- use the word in a sentence 8- Ss use the word in sentences of their own

Procedures in teaching vocabulary

The meaning The pronunciation The spelling The use The Derivations special connotations Collocations Synonyms and antonyms

Context: Through a senetnce Especially with abstract words Ex: the doctor asked her to stay in bed for a

week because she was very ill yesterday.

Techniques in presenting vocabulary

Describing out-of-reach concrete objects that are hard to draw quickly

Ex: a giraffe is an animal with a long neck, and dark brown spots on its yellow skin.

Description or definition

Effective especially in a place full of objects like a farm or zoo (animals), museum (artifacts), laboratory (chemical substances).

Objects; especially concrete things Drawings; tree, flower, ladder Mime; action verbs; sleep, run, eat

Educational trips

Words that have similar, but not exact, meanings;

Costly, expensive Film, movie Gift, present

Antonyms Words that are opposite in meaning; strong,

weak, happy, sad Gradability of opposites; hot and cold.

Synonyms

His wife likes nobody Nobody likes his wife

Especially used with things that are hard to draw quickly

Or that include many items that can be taught in one lesson

Pictures

Used for showing differences among abstract words or data

Wall Charts

Last resort Only when Ss do not understand after using

some of the previous techniques Elicit the Arabic word from the Ss, do not

say it your self. Ali’s brother is naughty; he does not do his

homework, he makes a noise What is the meaning of naughty? شقي That’s right, repeat “naughty”.

Translation

Odd one out Blank is blank Error categorization Discrimination task Segmenting Correct me Sentence sense Ranking

preferences

Semantic clues Proofreading Sentence formation Multiple choice Word jumbles Related words Vocabulary quiz Crossword puzzle Either-or questions pp. 132-142

Vocabulary activities