teaching vocabulary to advanced students
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A LEX ICAL APPROACH.
TEACHING VOCABULARY TO ADVANCED
STUDENTS
1.ADVANCED STUDENTS
• Student’s Communication:
Students are able to express themselves clearly and
appropriately.
However, their productive use of a wide range of
vocabulary is normally LIMITED.
Students need to be aware of use
them APPROPRIATELY.
(oral, written, style and degree
of formality).
2. THE TEACHING OF VOCABULARY.
• The vocabulary teaching should be part of the syllabus, according the regular basis.
Some authors argue that vocabulary should be the centre of language teaching.
Lexicalised grammar
Grammatical lexis.
ASPECT OF LEXIS, WHEN TEACHING VOCABULARY
1. Boundaries between conceptual meaning2. Polysemy.3. Homonymy4. Homophyny5. Synonymy6. Affective meaning7. Style, register, dialect (different contexts or
geographical features)8. Translation9. Chunks of language(collocations, idioms, multi.word
verbs)10.Grammar of vocabulary.11.Pronunciation
2.1 MEMORY AND STORAGE SYSTEMS.
How our memory works, it might help
us.
To create more
effectives ways to
teach vocabulary.
TECHNIQUES TO TEACH VOCABULARY.
• 1. Retention in short-term memory:
It will not be effective if the number of chunks of information exceeds seven.
• 2. Mental lexicon: Is highly organized and efficient.• 3. Word frequency: It is another factor, as the
most frequently used item are easier to retrieve, by grouping items of vocabulary in semantic fields• 4. Oxford’s advice: Memory strategies - Mental linkages. - Applying images and sounds. - Employing action.
5. Meaningful tasks: Allow students to analyze and process language more deeply,. It would help them retain information in long-term memory.
*Teachers can encourage learners: - topics and categories to organize a notebook binder or index cards. - Diagrams or word trees.
2.2 DEALING WITH MEANING.
• Foster Learner independence: This means that the students should keep going learning and expand their vocabulary beyond the end of the course.
Guided discovery: Asking questions or give examples.
Contextual guesswork: They can make use of the context in which the word appears to derive an idea of its meaning.
Dictionaries: Students are able to check pronunciation, the grammar of the word, spelling.
2.3 USING LANGUAGE
• Other strategy for advanced learner is to turn their receptive vocabulary items into productive ones.
Conceptual meaning
Polysemy Synonymy Style Register Possible Collocations.
Production depends MOTIVATION Student’s needs
LEXICAL ITEM:
2.4 LEXICAL APPROACH.
• Teaching and Vocabulary should be present in teaching a foreign language.
The importance of vocabulary as being basic to communication (Lewis
1993).
LEWIS:
• “Language consists not of traditional grammar and vocabulary, but often of multi-word prefabricated chunks”.
• Even for learners with “good vocabulary” have problems with fluency-.
Is the key to fluency.
This process make students
aware of chunks, so they
can identify, organize and record these.
• The idea of use chunks in a class is more productive than isolated words, because “language should be recorded together”.
• The use of “real” material is more effective, because “acquisition is facilitated by material which is only partly understood”.
3. RATIONALE OF THE LESSON.
• 3.1 Choice of material.
• TASK BASED – LEXICAL APPROACH :
Is necessary to use authentic material to expose our students,
contextualized, natural-occurring language.
• 3.2 Noticing collocations and dealing with meaning.
• dictionary contextual guesswork examples
1. They are going to work
as a whole class to make
Students aware of the collocations they will be focusing on.
2. This will enable them students to find other
collocations. For the new
words they are going to :
• 3.3 Group of work :
Learners can exchange knowledge, ask questions or explain other items.
Learning independenc
e.
Vocabulary work.
Motivating
Factor
• 3.4 Choice of task:
This will allow :
To reinforce and revise the vocabulary learntTo use the vocabulary they have studied.Motivate Students and show them the need of
vocabulary.
Writing a leaflet.