What Are The Ten Most Effective Vocabulary Activities?

What Are The Ten Most Effective Vocabulary Activities?

NATION, Paul

This talk presents ten proven and very useful activities for helping learners increase their vocabulary knowledge. In addition, reasons are given why these techniques were chosen to be in the top ten. These reasons relate to the five most important jobs of the vocabulary teacher. 1 Plan and provide a well-balanced course 2 Organize learning opportunities both in and outside the classroom 3 Train the learners in the four most useful vocabulary strategies 4 Test the learners 5 Teach vocabulary By the end of the talk, participants should know ten very useful ways to encourage the learning of vocabulary, should know why they are useful, and should have an awareness of some very important principles that should guide the learning of vocabulary.

Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed

2013

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