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Best Ways to Teach New Vocabulary to Young Students - TEFL Blog
Sun, 29 Dec 2019 Elizaveta Pachina
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Best Ways to Teach New Vocabulary to Young Students
One of the things of the English language that can make English hard to get to grips with. Vocabulary knowledge is highly correlated with reading comprehension and reading achievement. Vocabulary is required for students to achieve cognitive academic language proficiency. All good reasons to make sure that your vocabulary teaching is interesting, useful and effective.
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The Good Ways To Teach Vocabulary
Set achievable goals
What should we give to students with a new vocabulary
What the right FCs are
When teaching FCs for young learners, I follow these steps
These are some activities I often use when teaching with FCs:
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The Best Way to Teach Grammar and Vocabulary in an ESL Class - TEFL Blog
Thu, 16 Apr 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Best Way to Teach Grammar and Vocabulary in an ESL Class
Students from many different backgrounds with various skillsets, native languages, cultures, and experiences daily enter my Level 3 Low-Intermediatlow-intermediate Some students come having been exposed to English from a young age watching American television or listening to popular songs. Some of these students feel comfortable speaking in simple, broken sentences but communicating, nonetheless. Others step into the ESL classroom timid and insecure. They've just recently learned the Roman alphabet and have difficulty understanding simple directions or piecing words together. Regardless of where students come from and their prior experience with the English language, there... [Read more]
How to Teach Vocabulary Effectively - TEFL Blog
Mon, 10 Feb 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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How to Teach Vocabulary Effectively
Teaching vocabulary is one of the important ways for teachers to help English students succeed. When students expand their vocabulary, they can improve other language skills. The more vocabulary students have, the more words they can use to express thinking in their minds. And there are so many ways to help students to build their vocabulary, especially the three following ways.
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Visualization
Flashcards
Context
Student Talking Time
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Strategies On How To Learn A Language From Scratch: Tips For the English Teacher - TEFL Blog
Thu, 11 Nov 2021 Hadassah Roberts
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Strategies On How To Learn A Language From Scratch: Tips For the English Teacher
Learning a second language is something many English teachers need to undertake. Having good strategies to use is key to learning successfully.
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How to Learn a Second Language from Scratch
Start at the very beginning.
Ways to Learn Your First Vocabulary
Strategies On How to Learn to Use Vocabulary in Practical Ways
Final Steps in Learning A Language
Conclusion
Over to You
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The Many Ways of Teaching Vocabulary - TEFL Blog
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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The Many Ways of Teaching Vocabulary
Having undergone a process of teaching and based on my knowledge and experience, today I can give a sense of an area or topic that I think of any of you. I agree with the same opinion.
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When teaching vocabulary to students, students need to understand the following factors:
I also apply another way: drawing a macrologue diagram.
Play as learning!
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Useful Methods for Teaching Vocabulary - TEFL Blog
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Useful Methods for Teaching Vocabulary
Teachers often encounter difficulties in various aspects of language teaching. The main task of every teacher is to motivate and engage a student in the process of language learning. In this regard, teachers try to set a learning environment in the classrooms to be able to demonstrate and make learners stay focused on the lessons. There are different methods and approaches to learning English, and it is not always easy to choose the best one to make a lesson effective and successful.
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Why work on vocabulary?
Challenges
So, how do we, teachers, teach the vocabulary?
ESA
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Secrets of Effectively Teaching Core Vocabulary
Being an English teacher, teaching skills are very important. The quality of learning result depends on many factors, but the teacher's methods are the essential elements for learners' learning progress, motivation, enthusiasm, etc. to help them have the best result in studying English. I will concentrate on "How to teach vocabulary effectively".
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The Role of Vocabulary in Communication
Engagement
Delivering New Means of Communication
Practicing Acquired Linguistic Devices
Other Ways to Teach
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7 Effective Ways to Teach New Vocabulary - TEFL Blog
Wed, 29 Jul 2020 Elizaveta Pachina
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7 Effective Ways to Teach New Vocabulary
Teaching new words should be organized as a vivid way for better understanding and a higher level of remembering. These activities are easy to implement with any group of students. They are also very adaptable to online teaching format.
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1. Picture it
2. Keep it Real
3. Tell it Like it is
4. Sing it Outloud
5. Introduce Couples
6. Get Physical
7. The Root of the Issue
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3 Steps for Teaching ESL Vocabulary Effectively - TEFL Blog
Wed, 17 Feb 2021 Elizaveta Pachina
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3 Steps for Teaching ESL Vocabulary Effectively
Words are an essential part of the structure of English sentences. If we want to speak English as a foreign language, we need to know new words and even progress. Considering a student who needs to know and learn new words as a teacher, we have to answer this question "What impressive ways do you have in teaching ESL vocabulary?"
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To effectively acquire new ESL vocabulary, students must go through four essential stages:
1. Noticing and understanding new words
Introducing nouns, things, objects, animals, etc.
Introducing adjectives
Introducing abstracts
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5 Ideas How to Differentiate in The Classroom
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Wed, 02 Jan 2019 Linda Dunsmore
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The Most Common Problems Students in Mexico Face When Learning English
Most of the Mexican learners have difficulties with English due to a lack of the use of English in daily life. Most people in Mexico do not normally have real contact with English outside the classroom. They are usually only exposed to it through the media, such as online channels or music videos but most of them never listened to a real conversation in English or practiced a real-life situation (as asking for directions, ordering food, etc). If you are interested in teaching English in Mexico, this article will be very helpful as it highlights the most common problems students in Mexico face when learning English.
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The Importance of Reading in Language Acquisition
Reading is an integral part of the process of acquiring language skills and can be strong support for the development of listening, speaking and writing skills. We will explore the benefits of the diversity of written material - both in topic and style - the ways it can be utilized or expanded upon. We will also look at its shortcomings and some strategies for overcoming them.
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Passive Learning
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5 Challenges of Teaching EFL to Kindergarten Level Students
This post was written by our TEFL certification graduate Susan W. Please note that this blog post might not necessarily represent the beliefs or opinions of ITTT.
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1. Self-introduction
2. Reasons for practicing as an EFL Teacher
3. Ways in which EFL will guide me achieve my goals
4. Games and activities in the classroom
5. Planning my New Lesson
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Teach Productive Skills
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Speaking activities in the classroom
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3 Reasons Why Reading Boosts Language Acquisition
Reading is important in developing language skills. While we may speak every day, the vocabulary used is often limited. For people who speak more than one language, reading is an easy way to help o develop their language skills and fluency.
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1. Exposure to Various Topical Vocabulary
2. Exposure to Speech Patterns and Imagination Activities
3. Access to Different Social Contexts
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5 Secrets How to Teach English Grammar to ESL Students Easily
Some learners are very interested in finding out or learning grammar rules and doing lots of grammar exercises. Others hate grammar and think it is the most boring part of learning a new language. Whatever opinion you have, however, you cannot escape from grammar.
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1. Listening lays the foundation for learning any language, and it is the basis of all lessons
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