This is my activity
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This activity is focused in developing the students skills (writing, speaking, listening) participating actively in class
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Box 5.2 Vocabulary techniques
1) Some techniques are more popular than others. What are thery, and can you account for their popularity?
The most common techniques to teach vocabulary are:
- concise definition, to present accurately the understanding of a concept or term
- examples, are used to contextualize an explanation or definition
- illustrations, are used to plot the explanation of a concept
These are the most used techniques and I think this is because it is simpler and more effective on the students.
2) Are there techniques that are particularly appropiate for the presentation of certain type of words?
Some of them are used to reinforce an explanation like techniques of demonstration (mimes) this helps the students to understand clearly what we're talking about, synonyms and antonyms to asociate better the concepts that definitely are not part of the concept and those that are part of them and detailed description, this techniques takes more time than the others and it's more complicated I think because a simple description don't help the students to understand clearly.
3) Are there techniques which are likely to be more, or less, appropiate for particular learner populations (young/adult, beginner/advanced, background cultures)?
I think the most appropiate for young/adult category is to give a concise definition and then the students asociate with synonyms or antonyms. For beginner/advanced category is more useful a detailed description but talking about a beginner it's much more useful than an advance person and in different background cultures for this category it would be more efficient to show pictures because there are countries with different ideads about a term.
4) Do you, as an individual, find that you prefer some kinds of techniques and tend to avoid others? Which? and Why?
I prefer to use first a concise definition as a first step to have an idea the concept then I consider useful to give examples using a demonstration, for example by miming or illustrations and this techniques let students to finally understand efficiently. The kinds of techniques that I would avoid will be translation, even being a very good technique but this doesn't help us to teach students to comprehend a second language by listening, and finally a detailed description I think it's not as effective as the others.
The most common techniques to teach vocabulary are:
- concise definition, to present accurately the understanding of a concept or term
- examples, are used to contextualize an explanation or definition
- illustrations, are used to plot the explanation of a concept
These are the most used techniques and I think this is because it is simpler and more effective on the students.
2) Are there techniques that are particularly appropiate for the presentation of certain type of words?
Some of them are used to reinforce an explanation like techniques of demonstration (mimes) this helps the students to understand clearly what we're talking about, synonyms and antonyms to asociate better the concepts that definitely are not part of the concept and those that are part of them and detailed description, this techniques takes more time than the others and it's more complicated I think because a simple description don't help the students to understand clearly.
3) Are there techniques which are likely to be more, or less, appropiate for particular learner populations (young/adult, beginner/advanced, background cultures)?
I think the most appropiate for young/adult category is to give a concise definition and then the students asociate with synonyms or antonyms. For beginner/advanced category is more useful a detailed description but talking about a beginner it's much more useful than an advance person and in different background cultures for this category it would be more efficient to show pictures because there are countries with different ideads about a term.
4) Do you, as an individual, find that you prefer some kinds of techniques and tend to avoid others? Which? and Why?
I prefer to use first a concise definition as a first step to have an idea the concept then I consider useful to give examples using a demonstration, for example by miming or illustrations and this techniques let students to finally understand efficiently. The kinds of techniques that I would avoid will be translation, even being a very good technique but this doesn't help us to teach students to comprehend a second language by listening, and finally a detailed description I think it's not as effective as the others.
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