How to teach vocabulary\374
actively engaged in a meaningful task
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- Semantic mapping
actively engaged in a meaningful task that involves some kind of semantic processing, and provides a unifying
theme to facilitate organisation in the memory. There are many ways of doing this. Here are some ideas: Ask learners to write a true sentence using the new word, preferably applying it to themselves or someone they know — Learners write questions for other learners, incorporating the new word. For example: What makes you embarrassed/frightened? They exchange questions, write the answers, and then report to the rest of the class. Ask learners to make an association network centred on the new word. That is, they connect the word to other words that they associate with it, however far-fetched, drawing a diagram in the manner of the example opposite. They then compare their networks with those of other students, asking about, and explaining, the associations. Here, for example, is the association network produced by one student for the word iron: If teaching a lexical set such as food items, or forms of transport, or jobs, or kinds of film, ask the learners to rank the items in order of personal preference — from most preferred to 23 least preferred. For example, drama, thriller, musical, western, costume drama, horror movie ... Then, in pairs, they compare and explain their rankings. Semantic mapping - ASSOCIATIONS Semantic mapping generally refers to brainstorming associations which a word has and then diagramming the results. For example, when asked to give words they thought of when they heard the word “faithfulness”, low-intermediate ESL students generated sixteen words or phrases: cat, friend, family, reliance, trust, dishonest, unfaithfulness, believe in friendships, bonds, obey, dog, friendly, sexual unfaithful, gossiping, marriage, love. After clustering words which they felt went together, they mapped the relationships between these words as follows: Because it is possible to analyze words in different ways and because features may be difficult to agree upon, semantic feature analysis and semantic mapping promote a great deal of group interaction. Over time, the learners may add new words to then charts and maps. These semantic exercises will then no only be visual reminders of links in the lexicon but of the learner’s expanding vocabulary. Download 0.75 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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