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1. 7thCamTESOL International Conference 2011 “A short and easy way to teach vocabulary effectively” Speaker: Sovann KHLEANG National Institute of Education, Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia Date of February 26-27, 2011

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4. Contents Why Teach Vocabulary? Concepts of T & L Vocabulary What to Teach? Traditional Ways of Teaching Creative Ways of Teaching Traditional Ways of Learning Creative Ways of Learning Theory of STM and LTM Five Ways to Teach Vocabulary 3 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

5. Objectives After the presentation SWBAT: Utilize the concepts of Teaching and Learning vocabulary in the real class; Apply the creative ways of teaching approach in the real class; Apply the additional five ways of teaching vocabulary in the real class; Provide the creative ways of learning approach to the students; and Facilitate students to move words from their STM to LTM. 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com 4

6. Why teach vocabulary? Vocabulary knowledge accounts for over 80% of the variance in reading comprehension. In the 4th grade, 70% of the problem in reading comprehension is vocabulary. Vocabulary is causally related to reading comprehension. “Indeed, one of the most enduring findings in reading research is the extent to which students’ vocabulary knowledge relates to their reading comprehension.” (Osborn & Hiebert, 2004) 5 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

7. Concepts of Learning Vocab. “With grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.”, Wilkins “You can say very little with grammar, but you can say almosteverything with words.”, Dellar and Hocking Swan and Walter said that “vocabulary acquisition is the largest and mostimportant task facing the language learner”. 6 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

8. What to teach #1? Theresearchshows that successful learners have to learn the High-Frequency Words (2,000 words) first. The first 1,000 words account for 75 % of the successive words in a text. The second 1,000 words account for 5 % of the successive words in a text. 570 academic words account for 10 % of the successive words in a academic text. 7 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com HFW#1 HFW#2 HFW#3

9. The effects of vocab. size on language comprehension 8 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

10. The most frequent word in English? the What are the 10 most frequently spoken words in English? 1) the 6) to 2) and 7) a 3) I 8) that 4) you 9) it 5) uh 10) of 9 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

11. A plan to build a series of escalators on the mountainside next to Tai Shue Wan was approved yesterday. The new escalators will provide a second entrance to Ocean Park. They will offer an alternative way of reaching the three main attractions on the headland. Ocean Park manager Kitty Chan said she was absolutely delighted with the news. She hopes that it will help arrest the decline in visitor numbers seen over the past two years. 10 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

12. What to teach #2? Meaning of the word Spoken and written forms Word parts (prefix, suffix, and “root” from) Grammatical Behavior (word class) Collocations Register Associations (similar or opposite words) Connotations Frequency 11 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

13. 12 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com meaning What to teach #3? pronunciation memory aid VOCABULARY spelling collocations usage form

15. Different meanings ‘she’s wearing a blue top.’ ‘put the top on the bottle.’

16. Idiomatic meanings ‘over the top’

17. Spelling (actual or phonetic)

18. Collocations e.g., ‘top-brass’ ‘top-heavy’

19. Part of Speech e.g., Noun, Verb, Adjective13 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

21. Practice new vocab. With some activities14 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

23. S notice lexical patterns

24. S Present new words (dictionary is needed)

25. S produce own text with target words15 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com Lesson Plan # 1 Lesson Plan # 2

27. Recording new vocabulary 03rd November 2008 tiger xøa handbagkabUbyYr wonderful EdlGs©arS escalator CeNþIreynþ delighted Edlmenarmü ✘ 17 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

28. Creative Ways of Learning Focus on vocabulary Offer variety Repeat and recycle Provide opportunities to organize vocab. Make vocabulary Learning personally Don’t overdo teach Use strategic vocabulary in class 18 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com Next

29. Recording new vocabulary 19 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

30. Theory of STM and LTM To move words from STM to LTM, S need to mentally process them by making decision, making personal association and multisensory experiences. Short-Term Memory (STM) receives patterns of images and sounds Long-Term Memory (LTM) is boosted by using a schema (structure for organizing information or concepts) combined with scripts (which stores a common behavioral sequence). 20 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

31. Making decision - identifying: finding collocations in a text or passage - selecting: choosing a collocation based upon some criteria - matching: pairing words to create a collocation or pairing collocations which are similar in some ways - sorting: categorizing collocations by meaning, pattern, usage and topic - ranking and sequencing: put collocations in some types of order 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com 21

32. Five Ways to Teach Vocabulary: A. Teach Directly by: 1. Giving examples and non-examples “This line is curved.” “This line is NOT curved.” 2. Giving synonyms “Masticate means chew.” 3. Giving definitions “Monarchy is a country which has a king or queen.” 22 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

33. Five Ways to Teach Vocabulary: B. Teach Indirectly by: 4. Using context to suggest meaning of a new word“The fan oscillated from side to side. The fan MOVED from side to side. So oscillate probably means to…” 5. Morpheme (word part) analysis “Inspire. In means to put something inside. Spir means spirit. So, to inspire means to…… spur, stimulate, encourage or influence” 23 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

34. Larry Bell’s 12 Powerful Words 1. Trace List in steps 2. Analyze Break apart 3. Infer Read between the lines 4. Evaluate Judge 5. Formulate Create 6. Describe Tell all about 7. Support Back up with details 8. Explain Tell how 9. Summarize Give the short version 10. Compare All the ways they are alike 11. Contrast All the ways they are different 12. Predict What will happen next 24 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com

35. “If a student doesn’t learn the way you teach – you must teach the way she learns.” 25 03-02-2011 E-mail: sovannkhleang.tesol@gmail.com Thank You For Participation !

37. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocabularyon February 01, 2011

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