APPROACHES TO VOCABULARY LEARNING
Approach to vocabulary learning is the most traditional. Students are either provided definitions of words or look them up in a dictionary, and they are drilled until they commit the meanings to memory.
What is definitional approach
are used when new vocabulary is learned without seeing or hearing the words in context.
What are non-contextual strategies?
involves both taking meaning from the text and creating meaning by integrating the text with prior knowledge.
What is reading comprehension?
are the literal meanings of words.
What are denotative meanings?
is when readers think about their own thinking.
What is metacognition?
approach to vocabulary learning emphasizes the morphological features of words—the roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
What is structural Approach?
are used to determine the meanings of unknown vocabulary words when they are encountered in context.
What are contextual strategies?
refers to understanding the written meaning of a text.
What is literal comprehension?
Are the secondary meanings of words and refer to the positive and negative associations that arise from them.
What is connotative meanings?
An author’s purpose for writing can also help readers better evaluate the text because they will be aware of potential bias.
What are drawing conclusions?
approach to vocabulary learning provides the students with multiple examples of a word used in realistic contexts, allowing them to infer the meaning without resorting to a dictionary or an explicit definition.
What is contextual approach?
are common words used in everyday speech.
What are tier one words?
requires readers to make judgments and share opinions about what they have read based upon evidence found in the text and prior knowledge.
What is Evaluative comprehension?
important for story comprehensio n because it requires readers to identify and sequence the main story events
What is retelling?
refers to an author’s style of writing
What is an author's craft?
Approach to vocabulary learning groups words into categories based on a semantic similarity.
What is a categorical approach?
are found in both fiction and nonfiction texts and are common enough that readers will likely encounter them in multiple texts.
What are tier two words?
It requires inferring what the author meant.
What is Inferential comprehension?
One purpose of reading is for entertainment
What is aesthetic reading?
refers to reading and analyzing a text in a thoughtful manner to develop a deep understanding of its meaning, theme, use of language, and other elements.
What is Close Reading?
Approach to vocabulary learning builds associations between target words and mental images so that hearing a target word evokes the image, facilitating recall of the word’s meaning
What is mnemonic approach?
are mostly found in nonfiction texts and are domain-specific. These words are important for understanding the texts and their domains.
What are tier 3 words?
Refers to providing a concise description of the main idea and key details of a text.
What is summarization?
Occurs when readers select nonfiction texts to learn something new.
What is efferent reading?
is the ability to gather information from multiple sources and combine it to make meaning.
What is synthesis?