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Presenting and Teaching Vocabulary in the EFL Classroom

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Susanne Flohr
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Scholary Paper (Seminar)
Institution / College
Grade
2,0

Department of English & Romance Languages
Teaching of English as a Foreign Language and Foreign Language Research
Seminar: Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary
Winter Term 2006/2007
Presenting and Teaching
Vocabulary in the EFL Classroom
Susanne Flohr
Term: 5
Abgabedatum: 21.04.2008
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Table of contents
1.
Introduction
2
2.
Definition
3
3.
Presenting
Vocabulary
5
3.1.
Pre-Teaching
Activities
6
3.2.
Form and Meaning
7
3.3.
Types
of
Stimuli
7
3.4.
Input,
Reinforcement
and
Uptake
8
4.
Working
with
Dictionaries
8
4.1.
Using
a
Dictionary
9
5.
Presenting
New
Vocabulary
to
the
Class
9
5.1.
Organizing
New
Vocabulary
11
6.
Vocabulary-Testing
Techniques
12
7.
Outlook
15
8. References
16
2
Abstract
This paper is going to deal with the question how vocabulary can be introduced
in the EFL classroom and why it is essential for students to learn new
vocabulary and know how to use it in context. Furthermore, it deals with the
points that are involved in presenting and demonstrating vocabulary and it also
focuses on the teachers and learners and which roles they play in the whole
process of vocabulary acquisition in the EFL classroom. It is important to see
that the teacher needs to work actively with the students on the process of
acquiring new vocabulary and the students need to be involved in the learning
process. The teacher needs to show the students the necessity of learning
vocabulary since this is the most important part of foreign language learning
because without vocabulary they will not be able to communicate and
understand text that are written in a foreign language.
1. Introduction
In order to be able to speak a foreign language properly, the students need to
learn vocabulary because otherwise they will not be able to express and
articulate themselves in a way that other students or native speakers of English
can understand them. It is the teacher's task to support the learning process of
the students and to show them ways of learning vocabulary through different
teaching approaches and different methods.
There are many different ways of presenting and teaching vocabulary
in the EFL classroom but which of them are most efficient? That is a question
that has been discussed for many years now and one could come to the
conclusion that there is not only one right way of teaching vocabulary but a
variety of different approaches that can help the teacher in presenting and
teaching new vocabulary. A mixture of many different ways is always more
effective than using only one way of teaching which is also very boring for the
students. In earlier times, the teacher centred teaching was used in classes in
general but times have changed and this term paper will show what kind of
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different types of teaching vocabulary in the EFL classroom there are
nowadays and how the students are actively involved in every step.
2. Definition
What is vocabulary and what are the most important aspects that define
vocabulary?
Vocabulary can basically be defined "as the words we teach in the
foreign language"
1
which the teacher has to introduce and explain to the
students. One needs to be aware of the fact that new vocabulary does not mean
that only one new word is being introduced to the students because often multi-
word idioms or single ideas which consist of more than one word are
introduced. Therefore, "a useful convention is to cover all such cases by talking
about vocabulary ´items` rather than ´words`."
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The teacher needs to present
the vocabulary in a way that students can easily understand how to use the new
words. In addition to that, the learner's individual strategies for learning and
using vocabulary need to be taken into consideration.
There is a variety of aspects that need to be taken into account when
talking about vocabulary in the EFL classroom. These are the form, its
grammar, collocation, different aspects of meaning and the word formation.
The form of new vocabulary is really important which means in detail
its pronunciation and its spelling. In order to learn new words, you need to
know "what a word sounds like (its pronunciation) and what it looks like (its
spelling)."
3
The pronunciation of a word is "the way in which a language is
spoken"
4
or "the way a person speaks the words of a language".
5
In order to be
understood by a native speaker of English you need to pronounce the words the
right way. The spelling is "to name or write the letters of a word in their correct
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Ur 1996: p. 60
2
Ur 1996: p. 60
3
Ur 1996: p. 60
4
Oxford 1995: p. 887
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Oxford 1995: p. 887
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Title:
Presenting and Teaching Vocabulary in the EFL Classroom
Event:
Teaching Grammar and Vocabulary
Author:
Susanne Flohr
Year:
2008
Pages:
19
Archive No.:
V142931
ISBN (eBook):
978-3-640-52693-2
ISBN (Book):
978-3-640-52689-5
DOI:
10.3239/9783640526932
File size:
159 KB
Language:
English

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Presenting Vocabulary Teaching Vocabulary EFL Classroom Vocabulary

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