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Hola Listeros,
This has been a very interesting thread. I came across this site:
http://www1.harenet.ne.jp/~waring/vocab/principles/commonsense.htm
and this article:
Basic Principles and Practice in Vocabulary Instruction
To Appear. The Language Teacher 2002
Rob Waring Notre Dame Seishin University Okayama
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Abstract
This article presents some of the major `common sense’ principles of vocabulary
instruction and learning. It then discusses whether general language teaching reflects
these principles well, finding that often it does not. Several implications for vocabulary
teaching emerge from these findings…
The following are first lines of some of the paragraphs:
Teaching a word does not mean the students learned it.
We do not learn a word from one meeting.
There are 2 major stages in word learning. The first stage is matching the word’s spelling
and pronunciation (its form) with its meaning.
It is easier to forget a word than remember it
Students cannot guess the meaning of an unknown word from context if the surrounding
text is too difficult.
Words live with other words, not in isolation
Written and spoken vocabulary are different.
There is very low recycling of vocabulary in course books
Teachers all too often teach too many words at one time.
Most vocabulary exercises only test rather than teach………..
This article supports all that we do in TPRS.
Happy reading
Vivian Sutch
Retired Spanish teacher teaching English (TPRS) in Costa Ric
