Teaching Vocabulary

Memory strategies
1. Word cards
  1. Students train to choose new words to avoid interference.
2. Association with pictures
  1. Visual learners to associate what they see or imagine
3. Association with a topic or story
  1. Association and visualize the word-connection
Word-learning strategies
1. Dictionary use
  1. Word meanings, choosing the appropriate definition.
2. Morphemic analysis
  1. Analyzing its meaningful parts, or morphemes. word parts include root words, prefixes, and suffixes.
3. Contextual analysis.
  1. Involves inferring the meaning of an unfamiliar word by scrutinizing the text surrounding it.
Word consciousness
1. Adept diction, word play, and research on word origins or histories.
Multiple exposures in multiple contexts
1. Students encounter words repeatedly and in more than one context.
Mnemonic Strategies
1. Link a new word or concept to information that already know
2. Examples: key words, rhyming words, or acronyms
Pronunciation and Words
1. Vowels sounds
  1. To associate each vowel sound with a specific word. Example: /ɑ/ sound, Hot and Father
2. Consonants sounds
  1. Exceptions to the typical pronunciation for consonants. Example : /g/ in girl and /dʒ/ in giraffe
3. Word Combinations
  1. Improves vocabulary knowledge. Example: Idimatic expression, a heart to heart talk
4. Word form
  1. Learners to guess the meaning of vocabulary in context. Example: meaning and parts of speech on pronunciation and word stress.

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