Teaching Vocabulary with Technology
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This document discusses effective methods for teaching vocabulary with technology. It begins with warm-up questions about what it means to know a word and how many exposures are needed to learn it. Then it outlines a six-step process for teaching vocabulary involving explaining words, having students restate meanings, showing visual representations, engaging students in activities, discussing words, and playing vocabulary games. Various free or low-cost technology tools are provided as examples for each step, such as using videos, images, flashcards, and games. It emphasizes the need for multiple exposures, practice in context, and review to support vocabulary learning.
Teaching Vocabulary with Technology
- 1. Teaching Vocabulary with Technology KRISTI REYES OTAN MIRACOSTA COLLEGE, NONCREDIT ESL
- 3. Warm-up 1.What does it mean to “know” a word? 2.How many exposures to a word are necessary for a language learner to acquire and retain it?
- 4. Pairs Introduce yourself: Name + what, where, who you teach. Compare your answers to the questions 1. What does it mean to “know” a word? 2. How many exposures to a word are necessary for a language learner to acquire and retain it?
- 5. What does it mean to “know” a word? Receptive knowledge v. Productive knowledge
- 6. Productive Knowledge = form, meaning, use Pronunciation Spelling Word parts (prefixes, suffixes) and forms (singular, plural, inflections) and family Associations and synonyms Denotative v. connotative (polysemy – different meanings in different contexts) Grammatical function / part of speech Collocations Register Frequency Source: Nation, I.S.P. (2014). Learning vocabulary in another language (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- 7. What do we need to teach? Vocabulary Preview/Self-Rating See also “Vocabulary Self-Rating Chart”
- 8. How many exposures to a word are necessary for a language learner to acquire and retain it? One exposure = typical student’s retention rate 5 – 14% 5 – 20 or more exposures / repetitions (depending on several factors, including age of student) Repeated exposures = New word receptive knowledge productive knowledge
- 9. Pairs Again What is your one best / most effective technique or activity to … teach vocabulary? OR have students learn/study vocabulary? OR get students to use target vocabulary?
- 10. Six-Step Process for Teaching Vocabulary (Robert Marzano) RestateExplain Show Engage Discuss Play
- 11. Vocabulary Notebook or Index Cards Image mnemonics
- 12. Step 1: Explain Provide a student-friendly description, explanation, or example of the new term ◦ Online images or photos taken with cell phone ◦ Picture dictionary Web sites ◦ Graphic Interchange Format (GIFS) – search for or make your own by cutting an online video ◦ Comic strips or slideshows ◦ Anecdotal story or a current event
- 13. Explain Interactive Images: Thinglink ◦ Vegetables ◦ House ◦ Professions
- 14. Explain Videos ◦ narrated PowerPoint slideshows ◦ Jing, Screencast-o-matic - screencasting software ◦ video combined with slideshow at Present.me
- 15. Step 2: Restate Ask students to restate the description, explanation, or example in their own words. (linguistic) • Cell phone videos with voice recordings or video • Slideshow • Poster • Audio recording
- 17. Restate Interactive Concept Map Sites and online picture dictionaries ◦ Instragrok Grok for “immigrant”
- 18. Restate Word Wall ◦Padlet , Lino Source: http://bcudl.pbworks.com/f/WordWallNedralFlickrCC.jpg
- 19. Step 3: Show Ask students to construct a picture, symbol, or graphic representation of the term (nonlinguistic) • Sketchpads: Pencilapp • Google apps: Shared Google slideshow, Google Drawing • Formative - designed for instant polling / formative assessment (like Kahoot) but students draw
- 20. Step 4: Engage Engage students in activities that help them add to their knowledge of the terms ◦ Print flashcards ◦ ESL Flashcards, ESL Games Plus, ESL Library* ◦ Word, PowerPoint/Google Slides, Excel/Google Sheets ◦ Digital flashcards ◦ Quizlet: Academic Word List Sublist 1 ◦ Memrise: English Visual Dictionary course
- 21. Engage QR Codes – QR Voice (audio)
- 22. Engage Compare/contrast, Categorize/classify, Label, Diagramming
- 23. Engage Cloze - Learnclick Cloze Quiz Creator – 7 question types with app Text source: http://resources.marshalladulteducation.org/reading_skills_hme.htm Cloze on PDF with Learnclick free account / $29/yr subscription for online quizzes and tracking
- 24. Engage Worksheets - Wizer.me (like a hyperdoc)
- 25. Engage Word-of-the-Day (or week) presentations (PowerPoint, Google Slideshow, Prezi, Animoto, Powtoon, poster, other visual aide) Source: New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary, 2014 edition, TESOL Press, pp. 5 – 9 (with rubric).
- 26. Engage Dialog Writing ◦ Comic strips, digital movies, PowerPoint or Google Slideshow with callouts, videos Sample comic strip made with StoryBoard That North Orange County CC Health Video I hope this finishes soon! I need to get my lesson plans ready for Monday! Responsibility is my strongest soft skill!
- 27. Step 5: Discuss Ask students to return to discuss the vocabulary with each other ◦ Conversation Questions – Teacher or student-composed questions using target vocabulary words sent via QR code or on a shared Google Doc ◦ Students must reply to questions using full sentences and target vocab 1. What is a good method for looking for a job? 2. What is your preferred method for studying vocabulary? 3. What is the best method for learning another language? 4. What is a recommended method for preparing for a job interview?
- 28. Discuss ◦ Survey and graph results (Excel, Google Sheets, Create a Graph)
- 29. Discuss ◦ Written discussions - Discussion Boards (LMS or Forumotion), Blog or Wiki (Blogger, Wikispaces), Google Hangouts (video, phone, chat), Zoom video conference
- 30. Discuss Lingt for individual spoken or written responses to video or written or audio prompts
- 31. Step 6: Play Involve students in games that allow them to play with words ◦ Board games, races, Jeopardy, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, Password, etc.
- 32. A Vocabulary Review Activity: Soft Skills Template online
- 33. Ready to play?
- 35. empathy The is…
- 37. Step 6: Play ◦ Jeopardy and gameshow sites: eQuizShow, FlipQuiz , Jeopardy Labs, Jeopardy Rocks, SuperTeacher Tools ◦ Individual or competitive live-play (like Kahoot, Socrative): Quizziz, IQuizalize, Quizlet Live!
- 38. Step 6: Play Sugarcane – 18 individual game types – Immigrants’ Rights
- 39. Step 6: Play ◦ Educaplay – 17 game / activity types
- 40. Some key points from research ◦ Use direction instruction for teaching vocabulary ◦ Help students develop strategic communicative competence ◦ paraphrasing & expressions such as What is the word for…? ◦ Present vocabulary in context ◦ Practice activities: controlled practice (listen and repeat, matching, cloze) to activities that allow students to use the target words in meaningful, personalized ways ◦ Make time for review in a systematic way with repetition (remember 5 – 20 or more exposures) and recycling ◦ Forgetting occurs soon after learning – review soon after teaching ◦ Competitive fun review (games) – motivational, forces faster retrieval ◦ Writing vocabulary in own sentences strengthens memory of target vocabulary through generative processing
- 41. Promote Vocabulary Study Beyond Class Word-of-the-Day Web sites (Learners Dictionary) Apps (Illustrate – vocabulary learning through animated videos, others – see Web site) Email Subscriptions (A.Word.A.Day at WordSmith.org, Merriam- Webster's Word of the Day, Word Central Daily Buzzword, L10) Provide list of Web sites/apps for supplementary vocabulary practice (Learning Chocolate, General Academic Vocabulary, and Vocabulary Exercises for the Academic Word List)
- 43. Wrap-up: The “Take-Away” What is one new activity or technology tool that you are going to try in your class to help students learn vocabulary in your lessons?
- 44. Questions? Comments? Handout, PowerPoint slides, and many resources online at sites.google.com/view/teachvocwtech/home OR goo.gl/bpRPUk Let’s practice! Hands-on! Open a web browser and navigate to the website above… Here we go!
Editor's Notes
- #11: Steps 1 – 3: Introduce new vocabulary Steps 4 – 6: Provide multiple exposures and help students clarify their understanding
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