https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc en-us 2017-08-11 14:50:11 UTC 2025-11-15 00:44:37 UTC hello@padlet.com heyleeyan https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745491 Studies have supported the argument that the more vocabulary a student know the higher academic performance the student has. ]]> 2017-08-11 15:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745491 heyleeyan https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745544 Researchers over more than seven decades have found a strong correlation between vocabulary knowledge and academic performance. Although they have used different definitions and different assessment methods, they have achieved wide consensus. The more words students know, the higher their level of reading comprehension; and the higher their level of reading comprehension, the higher their level of academic achievement.]]> 2017-08-11 15:32:32 UTC https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745544 heyleeyan https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745614
In summary, the document has stressed the importance of the instruction of “word family” and cultivation of the love of reading. 

1. Share reading: Focus on the news words and guessing the meaning for the context; 
2. Small-group conversations about words: 
3. Create word charts of the most important words: Provide examples of the words in use, related to the content of the lesson, rather than definitions. Again, context matters more than definitions. 
4. Cloze sentences exercise;
5. Making inference from context;
6. Learn to look up the dictionary and reference books; 
7. Learn to analyse word forms;
   
   
8. Read, read and read: Provide varieties of books for students to read during independent reading time. 
   
   

]]> 2017-08-11 15:33:06 UTC https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745614 heyleeyan https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745671 “ For ELLs who first start learning English in Kindergarten, this would mean that they are already 1000 word families behind their age peers who have been learning English since birth. For ELLs who first start learning English in later years of schooling, the gap between them and their age peers is even greater and the support they need more intensive.” The tasks for ELLs are pretty daunting if they start learning English at a later stage of their life. Teachers should be aware of the issue when they have ELLs in the classroom. ]]> 2017-08-11 15:33:40 UTC https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745671 heyleeyan https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745726 In designing assessment tasks, it is important to refer to published lists of high-frequency words such as the revised General Service List available online (Bauman, 1996). Assessment tasks such as matching pictures and labels, matching words and definitions through multiple choice and cloze items are very useful. These may be based on reading passages written at a specific level (the 1,000-word level, 2,000-word level, etc.). Nation (2001) provides the Academic Word List as an appendix, as well as guidelines for designing assessments at various levels and examples of tests that teachers can use or adapt for their own students. It is also useful to give students a list of 10 words at a given level and ask them to use at least five in a piece of writing, such as a response to a reading passage.]]> 2017-08-11 15:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/heyleeyan/dlj67waxkjfc/wish/180745726