How
would you encourage your students to learn vocabulary?
Make
it easy
Learning a new language
is always a difficult task, especially being a teenager who has to
memorize a long list of new words that are incompressible. But there
are always special tricks to encourage students to learn new words,
such as games.
One of my favorite ones
is the Irregular Verb List game. When students must begin to study
ninety-five different verbs with three different columns, they easily
give up. Then, it is when a teacher should help them. But how? By
playing a game that they´ll love. Students should stand in a line in
the class looking at the black board, afterward the teacher must ask
them for a verb in Spanish. Then, the first student goes to the black
board and writes the verb in three different columns. If the student
has written the verb correctly, he/ she should go back to the same
place in line. But if the student does not know the verb or makes a
mistake, the following student goes to try it again. When the verb is
correct, the student who wrote it properly passes as many positions
as students who made a mistake. Students learn with the mistakes that
others did and vice versa. What is more, they motivate each other
like in a competition.
Another is through a
text, because it is easier to make them look up in a dictionary for
new words. Or to work with semantic fields, where all the words are
connected through the meaning, so it is easier for them to guess the
meaning of the new words.
To sum up, I have
explained my three favorites ways to help my students to learn
vocabulary with success. There are many ways to do it, but from
personal experience, these are the best ones.
Isabel Cavia
Profesora 1º
y 2º ESO
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