tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post7363060254585839295..comments2024-03-24T10:24:57.931+00:00Comments on Leoxicon: Experimental vocabulary practiceLeohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-62555556173991221432014-06-05T17:46:37.447+01:002014-06-05T17:46:37.447+01:00Hi Seyed,
I see what you mean. Students seem to un...Hi Seyed,<br />I see what you mean. Students seem to understand the meaning but fail to use the new vocab correctly. It's because clarifying meaning - however successfully and ingeniously it's done - is not enough, in my opinion. Learners need to be explicitly taught how a new word is used, what other words it goes with (collocations), what grammatical pattern it tends to occur in (colligation) etc.<br /><br />Then you need constant revision & recycling. Other techniques which might help are personalisation activities, input flood etc.<br /><br />I cannot really provide a quick-and-easy recipe as activating new vocabulary is probably one of the biggest challenges for an EFL teacher but generally what I write about on this blog has a lot to do with the topic.<br />Perhaps this post is a good place to start:<br /><a href="http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/09/chunks-highway-to-fluency.html" rel="nofollow">http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/09/chunks-highway-to-fluency.html</a><br />or this one:<br /><a href="http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/05/context-or-co-text.html" rel="nofollow">http://leoxicon.blogspot.com/2013/05/context-or-co-text.html</a><br />Do let me know if it helps.<br />LLeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-12922780334392034782014-06-02T09:27:06.478+01:002014-06-02T09:27:06.478+01:00Thanks Leo!
I do agree with what you've share...Thanks Leo! <br />I do agree with what you've shared above. I'm actually a fan of experimenting with the untried myself. The problem, however, is how to assure learning is taking place. What I mean is sometimes everything goes perfectly well, or at least it seems so, but in the end, students have trouble using the newly taught lexis. The question I'm posing is: if you were to teach your students certain vocabulary items, once you'd clarified the meaning, how would you help the students activate the vocabulary?<br />Thanks for your insightful article again & I'd really appreciate it if you could help me out here.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17826025747793231966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-74718788616995723592014-06-01T20:28:58.995+01:002014-06-01T20:28:58.995+01:00Yes that's what I meant when I said that stude...Yes that's what I meant when I said that students won't be able to catch them in a stream of speech. "Gets lost amidst of sea of ellisions, blendings and schwas" is putting it so poetically - I could have never done the same.<br /><br />Thank you for stopping by, Luiz!Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-57604685642647489162014-06-01T20:23:31.246+01:002014-06-01T20:23:31.246+01:00Thank you for your comment, Sylvia.
That's the...Thank you for your comment, Sylvia.<br />That's the beauty of having a great PLN you can learn from and share ideas with.<br />LLeohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16077987567636970527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-52075681363145982782014-06-01T15:18:50.204+01:002014-06-01T15:18:50.204+01:00Leo, thanks for this article!
I also have my qual...Leo, thanks for this article!<br /> I also have my qualms about pre-teaching vocabulary, unless it's only a word/chunk or two. You know, those items without which comprehension will be REALLY impaired. I have found that students tend to bypass most of the lexis which is pre-taught in the actual reading process. It's as if they were meeting that item for the first time. Listening poses even more challenges because of phonology, I think, especially if the pre-taught item gets lost amidst of sea of ellisions, blendings and schwas. Luiz Otávio Barroshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14465263437227258813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5759462792103754770.post-42689178977692130602014-05-31T21:18:18.097+01:002014-05-31T21:18:18.097+01:00The article is excellent, I love the references th...The article is excellent, I love the references that I can follow up on and the collective teacher input - I love the word 'experiment' because I use it a lot - it's part of my mindset and philosophy - it's the key to creativity:)Silvershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02613708036469199830noreply@blogger.com