Teaching Vocabulary by Maria Rene Gonzalez https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul Made with charisma en-us 2017-09-21 04:20:10 UTC 2017-09-21 05:18:57 UTC hello@padlet.com 20090351 https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189602807 Vocabulary can be defined, roughly, as the words we teach in the foreign language. However vocabulary may be more than a single word.

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]]> 2017-09-21 04:22:02 UTC https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189602871 1. Form: pronunciation and spelling 20090351 https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189603081
The learner must know what a word sounds like and what it looks like.

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]]> 2017-09-21 04:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189603433 4. Aspects of meaning: detonation, connotation, appropriateness 20090351 https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189603602 The meaning of a word refers to the real world, its detonation. A less obvious component of the meaning of an item is its connotation: the associations, or positive or negative feeling it evokes.]]> 2017-09-21 04:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189603602 5. Aspects of meaning 20090351 https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189603842 How the meaning of one item relates to the meaning of others con also be useful in teaching.

Synonyms: items that mean the same, or nearly the same 

Antonym: items that mean the opposite

Hyponyms: specific example of a general concept.

Co-ordiantes: items that are the ‘same kind of thing’

Translation: words or expressions in the learners’ mother tongue that are equivalent in meaning.

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]]> 2017-09-21 04:31:36 UTC https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189604294 Presenting new vocabulary 20090351 https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189605118 Select an item from the vocabulary, think how the meaning of this item would best be presented and note down some ideas.

-          Illustration (picture, object)
-          Demonstrate (acting, mime)
-          Translation
-          Associate ideas, collocations

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]]> 2017-09-21 04:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189605316 VOCABULARY 20090351 https://padlet.com/20090351/qzttlwvoqqul/wish/189609070 - detonation: combustion that is initiated suddenly.
- connotation: an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
- evokes: bring or recall to the conscious mind.
- suffixes: a morpheme added at the end of a word to form a derivative
- prefixes: a word, letter, or number placed before another.
- substandard: below the usual or required standard.

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