VOCABULARY 1

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Vocabulary

Learning Vocabulary is not very popular and many teachers do not teach vocabulary, yet it is one of the most tested aspects of language learning...

A little experiment...

On the next slide you will see 35 words. 

Look at the slide for 1 minute and then go to the next slide. 

It is important that you time yourself correctly.

water		life		fire		square		death
line		air		angry		pencil		ball
picture		appel		year		sheep		cluedo
sky		hill		cloud		spring		shape
pen		foot		wind		round		happy
cat		paper		arm		dog		point
foot		rabbit		round		sad		intelligent

How much is 3 X 6?

And 24 divided by 6?

Now write down as many of the 35 words you can remember

What are techniques we use?

spelling

pronouncing

personalising

using

categorising

visualising

recycling

associating

repeating

being active with words

(using) in context/thematic

having word (in)formation

affective filter / emotion

mnemonics

The Theory