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The use of word lists
memory, meanings &
methods
Philip Kerr, May 2012
Handout
http://vocabularylists.wordpress.com/
Learning by heart
• Teaching fashions
• Learning words & using
words
• Forgetting
• The phonological loop
The maths of word learning
• How many words are
needed?
• How many hours are there?
• How many words can be
learnt in an hour?
• How often do we need to
encounter new words?
• And so?
Keeping word lists
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What’s on the list? (words, phrases,
chunks …)
What other information is helpful?
(translation, frequency, parts of
speech, example, collocations,
pronunciation …)
What form should the list take?
Keeping word lists
Keeping word lists
• really / extremely /
quite / mainly / no
longer interested in
• really / sincerely /
very much hope to
• fully / definitely
intend to
• really / quite look /
looking forward to
• should / need to
plan to …
• desperately / really
/ only / simply want
to
• would really / rather
/ quite like to
Word lists & translation
http://translationhandout.wordpress.com/
Word lists in class
Word cards
Word cards
• Go through the pack, trying to recall
what is on the other side
• Place words that are easy to recall at
the bottom of the pack; put harder
words back in the middle of the pack
• Go through the pack once or twice;
look at it again in about 30 minutes
• Look again later that day, the next day,
a few days later, a week later, etc.
• Transfer difficult words to a new pack
• NB Begin by looking at L2 words first;
later begin with the L1 words first
Nation, I.S.P. Teaching Vocabulary
(Heinle, 2008)
Word cards in class
http://efl-resource.com/some-vocabularybag-activities/
Mind maps
Flipped classes
Word association activities
Contact
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http://vocabularylists.wordpress.com/