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Title: How to Teach Vocabulary and Reading


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How to Teach Vocabulary and Reading
  • Freshta Sediqi Mariam Alamyar
  • Purdue University
  • 6/30/2009

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TESOL (1)
  • Teachers of English to the Speakers of other
    languages (TESOL)
  • Funded 1966 by ELT professionals
  • Location Alexandria, Virginia US
  • Network 60000 educators worldwide
  • Members 13000 individuals
  • Affiliation with more 100 associations around the
    world

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TESOL (2)
  • Mission to develop and maintain professionals
    expertise in English language teaching for
    speakers of other languages worldwide.
  • Value professionalism in language education,
    interaction of research education for improvement
    of English language, respect for diversity and
    multiculturalism, collaboration in global
    community

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How to teach vocabulary
  • Why teaching vocabulary is important?
  • What are some effective ways to teach vocabulary?
  • How do we select which vocabulary to teach?

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Question1
  • The more words you know the better you express
    yourselves.
  • The more words you know the better you understand
    texts, conversations, and written pieces.
  • You will improve comprehension.
  • Reading supports language across the four skills
    of listening, reading, speaking and writing.

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Question 2
  • Pictures
  • Flash cards
  • Realia
  • Gesture/miming
  • Definition
  • Synonyms/antonyms
  • Situation/demonstration
  • Cline
  • Affixes (suffixes and prefixes)
  • Drawing/games
  • -R
  • Dates/Times
  • -345pm, February 12, 2009
  • -600pm, February 16, 2009
  • Lengths
  • - 45 min

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Question 3
  • Most common and high frequency words in a wide
    range language uses
  • According to the level of students
  • According to the lesson and situation
  • Considering the topic of the input session
  • Considering the needs and interests of students
  • Highlighted vocabulary in the written input

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Vocabulary Activities
  • Matching
  • True/false
  • Categorization
  • Multiple choice
  • Games/drawing
  • Cross words/puzzles
  • Circling the words
  • Filling the gap
  • Word search

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How Tired??
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How to Teach Reading Skills
  • Why reading is important?
  • How many types of reading do we have?
  • In your experience, what are some of the stages
    of teaching reading skill?
  • How can we encourage the students to be fast
    readers?
  • How can we make the reading text interesting for
    our learners?

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Question 1
  • To become a better writer
  • To improve vocabulary
  • To comprehend accurately
  • To enhance general knowledge worldwide

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Question 2
  • Intensive reading
  • - Course books, exercise, and texts
  • Extensive reading
  • - Fluent, faster reading, often of longer
    texts, for pleasure, entertainment and general
    understanding, but without such careful attention
    to the details.

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Question 3
  • Pre-reading task
  • - Warm up, prediction
  • While-reading task
  • - pre-teach vocabulary, skimming (reading
    for gist)
  • Post-reading task
  • - scanning (reading for specific
    information)
  • Follow up task
  • - discussions, and assignment related to the
    reading topics

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Question 4
  • Teaching reading techniques
  • Giving interesting, updated, and useful materials
    to read
  • Providing materials according to the level of the
    students
  • Utilizing real objects such as pictures
  • Encouraging to read silently vs. words by words
  • Encouraging the learners to guess the meaning of
    the words from contexts.

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Question 5
  • Incorporating reading games
  • Teaching difficult words within the text
  • Having the students to discuss in small groups
  • Devoting plenty of time for students to read the
    text and understand it fully
  • Asking the learners to write a short paragraph
    about what they have read

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