the what and how of vocabulary teaching and learning brett reynolds [email protected]
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The What and How of Vocabulary Teaching and LearningBrett [email protected]
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Word are exactly like stocks…
…only different
Similarities•Learning them is an investment of time
(and time is money)•Different words have different rates of return
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The Quiz
Rank the following in order of learning priority, assuming your student knows none of them:
1. thus2. expect3. distant4. realm5. pencil6. filibuster (it shows up in a reading you’re doing)
7. only + handful (collocation) 3.67 8. hit the jackpot (idiom) 0.43
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The Quiz
Rank the following in order of learning priority, assuming your student knows none of them:
Frequency per million words1. thus 93.17 (493.46 /
49.25) 2. expect 220.483. distant 25.89 4. realm 13.36 5. pencil 11.27 6. filibuster 6.11 7. only + handful (collocation) 3.67 8. hit the jackpot (idiom) 0.43
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Overview
Vocabulary– What’s a word?– Goals of vocabulary learning (selecting vocabulary)– Knowing a word– Guessing vocabulary– Studying vocabulary (and technology)– Teaching & explaining
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What’s a word?
Word sensesTokensTypesLemmasFamilies
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What’s a word?
Word senses• The various meanings a word has
• run = 1. move (animals), 2. function (machines), 3. flow (water)
• Begin by teaching most common sense of a word• Good dictionaries LDOCE, Oxford Learner’s, etc.• Most common sense is usually overwhelmingly so• Don’t teach other senses until the basic sense is well
establishedTokensTypesLemmasFamilies
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What’s a word?
Word sensesTokens•any instance of a word• Vocabulary helps us and puzzles us.
TypesLemmasFamilies
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What’s a word?
Word sensesTokens•any instance of a word• Vocabulary helps us and puzzles us. (6 tokens)
TypesLemmasFamilies
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What’s a word?
Word sensesTokensTypes•all identically spelled words are one type• Vocabulary helps us and puzzles us.
LemmasFamilies
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What’s a word?
Word sensesTokensTypes•all identically spelled words are one type• Vocabulary helps us and puzzles us. (6 tokens & 5
types)
LemmasFamilies
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What’s a word?
Word sensesTokensTypesLemmas•all regularly inflected words sharing a stem and
belonging to the same category• [verb: jump, jumps, jumped, jumping] [noun: jump,
jumps][noun: jumper, jumpers]
Families
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What’s a word?
Word sensesTokensTypesLemmas•all regularly inflected words sharing a stem and
belonging to the same category• [verb: jump, jumps, jumped, jumping] [noun: jump,
jumps][noun: jumper, jumpers] (3 lemmas, 6 types, 8 tokens)
Families
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What’s a word?
Word sensesTokensTypesLemmasFamilies•all regularly inflected and derived words sharing
a stem• [jump, jumps, jumped, jumping, jumper, jumpers]
[do, doing, undo, redo, doable]
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What’s a word?
Word sensesTokensTypesLemmasFamilies•all regularly inflected and derived words sharing
a stem• [jump, jumps, jumped, jumping, jumper, jumpers]
[do, doing, undo, redo, doable] (2 families, 7 lemmas, 11 types, 11 tokens)
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What’s a word?
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Goals of vocabulary learning
How much do learners need to know– How many words are there in English– How many words do native speakers know– High frequency vocabulary– Academic vocabulary– Low frequency vocabulary
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Goals of vocabulary learning
How much do learners need to know– The more the better– At least 95% of the tokens in a study text– About 99% of the tokens in a pleasure reading text
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POP QUIZ
Word sensesTokensTypesLemmasFamilies
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Goals of vocabulary learning
How much do learners need to know– How many words are there in English
• It depends on what a word is• OED has about half a million entries• About 114,000 word families (Webster’s)
– How many words do native speakers know– High frequency vocabulary– Academic vocabulary– Low frequency vocabulary
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Goals of vocabulary learning
How much do learners need to know– How many words are there in English– How many words do native speakers know
• About 1,000 lemmas per year of life until finishing school (why does it slow down after that?)
• Average adult knows about 20,000 word families– High frequency vocabulary– Academic vocabulary– Low frequency vocabulary
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Goals of vocabulary learning
How much do learners need to know– How many words are there in English– How many words do native speakers know– High frequency vocabulary
• About 2,000 word families• General Service List (GSL): not bad, but not great• British National Corpus List (BNC): better• Bare Naked Lexis (BNL): bad name, good list
– Academic vocabulary– Low frequency vocabulary
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Text coverage (first 100 lemmas)
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Text coverage (first 1000 lemmas)
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Goals of vocabulary learning
How much do learners need to know– How many words are there in English– How many words do native speakers know– High frequency vocabulary– Academic vocabulary
• Academic Word List (AWL): good but…• My AWL: better but…
– Low frequency vocabulary
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Goals of vocabulary learning
How much do learners need to know– How many words are there in English– How many words do native speakers know– High frequency vocabulary– Academic vocabulary– Low frequency vocabulary
• Specialized vocabulary• General low-frequency vocabulary• Idioms• Collocations
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Text coverage (first 6,300 lemmas)
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Goals of vocabulary learning
How much do learners need to know– How many words are there in English– How many words do native speakers know– High frequency vocabulary– Academic vocabulary– Low frequency vocabulary
• Words• Idioms• Collocations
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Idiom frequencies
•Write down your idioms and collocations and save them for later
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Knowing a word
Learning burdenReceptive vs. productiveCollocationsRegisterGrammar
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Knowing a word
Learning burden•Some words are easy to learn and some are hardReceptive vs. productiveCollocationsRegisterGrammar
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Knowing a word
Greater Burden Lower Burden
long short
phonologically unfamiliar phonologically familiar
irregular spelling regular spelling
new concept familiar concept
abstract meaning concrete meaning
few relevant links (or many distracting links)
many relevant links (and few distracting links)
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Knowing a word
Learning burden•Work more with high-burden words, especially
by making links.Receptive vs. productiveCollocationsRegisterGrammar
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Knowing a word
Learning burdenReceptive vs. productiveCollocationsRegisterGrammar
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Knowing a word
Learning burdenReceptive vs. productiveCollocations•http://193.133.140.102/JustTheWord/• Do you use consider + obj or consider about + obj?• What two verbs are most commonly used with mind as
an object?
RegisterGrammar
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Knowing a word
Learning burdenReceptive vs. productiveCollocationsRegister•http://www.americancorpus.org•Register is about where and when to use a word.• formal/informal, spoken/written, fiction/academic, etc.
•Which register is the verb mind most common? What about the noun?
Grammar
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Knowing a word
Learning burdenReceptive vs. productiveCollocationsRegisterGrammar• Which verbs are most commonly followed by to-
infinitives and which by present participles?
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Let’s check those idioms!
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Guessing vocabulary
•Perhaps one of the most important skills.•Often it is not possible to guess, especially with
adjectives and adverbs.• It requires regular practice.•Students must be encouraged to read beyond
the unknown word.•When you’re creating guessing worksheets, don’t
use real words.• Do use real and relevant affixes.
•Recycle reading and audio texts.•The correct answer is not important. Good
reasoning is. Be flexible.
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Guessing vocabulary
• When you’re travelling, splaters of the flatlands will tell you directions and distances or times, “It’s about 30 minutes north of here.”
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Guessing vocabulary
• A Greek may motion or anprot or say, "Follow me." Then that person will lead you through the streets of a city to the post office.
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Guessing vocabulary
• People in Yucatan may believe that a quick "I don't know" is impolite; they might stay and talk to you--and usually they'll try to give an answer, sometimes a wrong one. A tourist without a good sense of direction can get very, very lost in this southern castion!
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Guessing vocabulary
• As another example, some communities have sparf laws: motorcycle riders and bicycle riders under a certain age have to wear these hard hats for safety.
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Guessing vocabulary
• Outside big cities, people most often use pertons in their directions. For example, the Japanese might tell travelers something like this: "Go straight down to the corner. Turn left at the big hotel with the sushi bar and go past the fruit market.”
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Studying vocabulary
Key principles– Choosing useful words– Memorize basic meanings– Do NOT group similar words– Spaced repetition for review – Depth of processing– Motivation
DictionariesWord cardsExtensive readingComputer software
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Studying vocabulary
Key principles
Dictionaries•Electronic or paper?•A good bilingual dictionary•A good unilingual dictionary
– Longman Elementary Dictionary (Grades 3-8)– Longman Study Dictionary (Beginning – Low-Intermediate)– Longman Essential Activator (Int – High-Int)– Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (High-Int –
Adv)Word cardsExtensive readingComputer software
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Studying vocabulary
Key principles
Dictionaries
Word cards•Very powerful, but…•Most students won’t use them individually•Use them in class.Extensive readingComputer software
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(V: intransitive)
agree
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When two people agree about something, they have the same ideas. They both think the same things are true.•We agree that it will probably rain this afternoon.
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Studying vocabulary
Key principles
DictionariesWord cards
Extensive readingComputer software
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Studying vocabulary
Key principlesDictionariesWord cardsExtensive reading
Computer software•Websites• www.livemocha.com• www.lingq.com• www.lextutor.ca• www.anki.com
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Teaching & explaining
L1 or L2?Instruction in how to use a dictionaryReasons for explaining a wordLower levels vs. higher levelsAnti-teaching