teaching vocabulary

LISTENING exercise: 

• How many words do pupils have to learn?
• And which words should they learn?
• How do you as a teacher guide your pupils in process of studying words?
• How can you stimulate vocabulary acquisition?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3cswk2d

 

         

         

         

 

 

teaching vocabulary

How to help in process of studying words? 

 

• vocabulary can(not)?! be taught on its own
• teach word strategies
• make connection English & other languages
• teach chunks

         

         

         

 

 

teaching vocabulary

How to stimulate vocabulary acquisition in reading and listening?  

 

• pre teach vocabulary when doing reading/listening activities
• do follow up exercises as well
• in introduction phase of teaching collocations - do not separate individual words, present collocations  in a gap fill exercises

         

         

         

 

 

teaching vocabulary

Useful links to 

 

• online dictionaries
• online tools to study vocabulary (illustration Quizlet)
• word lists with frequently-used words in English
• frequency based vocabulary tests

         

         See Canvas 

         

 

 

teaching grammar

Can(not)?! be taught on its own! 

Different methods of teaching grammar: 

• explicit inductive grammar teaching: pupil derives grammar rule out of language material
• explicit deductive grammar rule: teacher teaches pupil the grammar rule
• implicit grammar teaching: pupil learns by heart some language material with correct grammatical structures, no grammar rules introduced
• incidental grammar teaching = acquisition: learners pick up a grammatical feature while primary focus is on some other aspect of language

         

         

         

teaching grammar

Research --> guided explicit inductive grammar teaching 

 

Different steps in guided explicit inductive grammar teaching: 

• observation - you need a lot of examples
• discovering patterns
• a tentative hypothesis
• ​forming a rule

 

 

 

 

         

         

         

 

 

teaching grammar

Grammar rules should be 

 

• as general as possible (first general, then if necessary exceptions)
• easy to understand
• should cover 3 dimensions of a grammatical structure
  • form, meaning, use
• is concrete and concise (avoid meta language)
• presented in meaningful sentences
•  explained by using visual aids like time lines, arrows, use of different colours, stories etc...

"The verb action happened in the past, usually the recent past, and the results of the action are relevant now"

 

 

 

 

 

 

         

         

         

 

 

teaching grammar

Grammar exercises

 

• offer pupils a lot of exercises 
• in writing but also in speech!
• some exercise types 

 

 

 

 

         

         

         

 

 

teaching grammar

Pupils 1st/2nd grade vocational studies (BSO) advisable to teach them chunks of words

Chunks?

• a group of connected items or words so that they can be stored or processed as single concepts

 

• kant en klare, ongeanalyseerde brokken van meer dan 1 woord; deze worden niet geproduceerd door de leerlingen op basis van het toepassen van grammatical regels, maar zitten als grote(re) gehelen in ons geheugen

 

 

 

 

         

         

         

 

 

teaching grammar

Chunks?

•  Examples:

  • at the end of the day, in my opinion, and they lived happily ever after, by the way
  • Deze komen vaak voor --> voor leerlingen interessanter om ze uit het hoofd te lezen als één woord