Vocabulary Acquisition Principles
This principle mentions that students need to understand 98% of words in a text to comprehend the text.
What is lexical coverage?
The most important idea/principle to keep in mind when deciding what vocabulary to teach.
What are the student's goals?
An electronically stored collection of naturally occurring speech or text compiled according to specific criteria.
What is a corpus?
The strand where most teachers focus their teaching.
What is language focused learning
An aspect of a word that naturally and frequently occurs before, after, or very near the target vocabulary item.
What is a collocation?
What is the learning burden?
The vocabulary that is typically taught first.
What is high frequency vocabulary?
The expanded name for COCA?
What is the Corpus of Contemporary American English?
The skill areas that are used for output.
What are speaking and writing?
This aspect of a word can change from negative to positive or vice-versa over time.
What is connotation?
This principle suggests that the first few encounters with a vocabulary word should be taught close together and later encounters further apart.
What is spaced repetition?
This type of vocabulary would be the last type of vocabulary to be taught.
What is low frequency?
This strategy involves using the L1 translation or a brief definition on small cards.
What is the word card strategy?
The strand where you would listen to stories, or read newspapers, participate in normal every day activities.
What is meaning-focused input?
This aspect of a word is confusing for ELLs because they are often not literal meanings of the word or phrase.
What are idiomatic expressions or phrasal verbs?
Much research has been completed comparing deliberate learning with incidental learning, but one of them is considered far superior and lasts for a long time.
What is deliberate word learning?
This word list is an alternative to the Academic Word List.
What is the Academic Vocabulary List?
When learning vocabulary, students are instructed to avoid using similar spelled or sounding vocabulary, opposites or members of the same ______ set.
What is a lexical set?
The strand that Nation states is the most over looked.
What is fluency?
The main reason many words in English are difficult to spell or pronounce.
What is a low letter-to-sound correlation?
Applying this principle helps determine what becomes part of our attention and memory, which strongly affects what we learn, making it easier for learners to use vocabulary because it is relevant and remembered.
What is salience?
The AWL list contains how many vocabulary words?
What is 570?
This is an example of a specific test using writing or speaking skills to measure vocabulary.
What is the Productive Vocabulary Levels Test?
The amount of time that should be spent on each of the four strands.
What is equal time?
Knowing when it is appropriate to use a word instead of a synonym or similar word, e.g slang.
What is register or usage?