Vocabulary learning
What is the goal of vocabulary teaching?
To support language use across the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
What is one technique to enhance noticing?
italics/bold/stating the meaning
Why are graded readers especially useful for vocabulary learning?
Because they control vocabulary, repeat important words many times, and allow learners to understand most of the text while meeting new words repeatedly over time.
Why is deliberate language-focused learning considered more efficient than incidental vocabulary learning?
Because learners focus directly on the word’s form, meaning, and use, which speeds up vocabulary acquisition.
What is fluency?
It is the focused language use that is done without any particular focus on language features.
When designing vocabulary materials, it is thus very important to take a --------------------- approach to learning.
Cost/benefit
What do you need to recall in productive retrieving condition?
the new word
How does repeated exposure to vocabulary in input help learners remember words?
Seeing the same words again and again over time supports spaced receptive retrieval, which helps learners recognize and remember words more effectively.
Why is deliberate learning especially important for academic and low-frequency vocabulary?
Because these words do not appear often enough in natural input to be learned through exposure alone.
What’s the name of the third approach?
The well-ordered system approach
What are the three important ideas in vocabulary materials development?
A planned approach to vocabulary development is more effective than ad hoc approaches, materials should be designed to create learning conditions that enhance vocabulary learning, and these conditions should occur across the four roughly equal strands of learning.
Which type of psychological context involves the context of the word and its significance in the meaning
elaborating
How can listening and reading activities be designed to improve vocabulary learning?
By defining unfamiliar words, using glossaries, and creating follow-up tasks that require learners to reuse or extend target vocabulary in new contexts.
How do activities like flashcards or matching tasks support vocabulary learning?
They encourage noticing, retrieval, and repeated attention to target words.
What is the 4/3/2 method?
The students are grouped into pairs where the speaker speaks for four minutes, then the listener with another pair explains in three minutes and finally the new listener explains to a new listener for two minutes the previous information.
How does deliberate vocabulary learning affect second or foreign language learners?How does deliberate vocabulary learning affect second or foreign language learners?
Can account for a large proportion of vocabulary learning and can result in large amounts of learning that are retained over substantial periods of time.
What are the 3 conditions, from highest to lowest level
elaboratin—>recalling->noticing
What is the difference between intensive reading and extensive reading in terms of vocabulary learning?
Intensive reading focuses directly on language and leads to faster vocabulary gains, while extensive reading promotes incidental learning through enjoyment and fluency, but requires a large amount of input.
Why does deliberate language-focused learning help learners use vocabulary more accurately later?
Because students develop a clearer understanding of pronunciation, meaning, and correct usage.
Explain the how a blown-up book is used in an activity for the development of fluency
Its pictures are shown to the students so then the teacher creates a story that is repeated
What are three arguments against deliberate vocabulary learning?
Deliberate learning can only account for a small proportion of vocabulary knowledge, it does not result in much learning when it is not in a communicative context, and it does not help later vocabulary use in communicative contexts.
What English words are being teached using the keyword technique where the first language is Spanish
Carrot, soap, pan, box
Why is it important that learners understand most of the words in a text, and how many should they know?
Understanding most words prevents overload and supports learning; learners should know about 98% of the words for vocabulary learning and almost 100% for fluency development.
What would happen if vocabulary were taught only through communication without deliberate focus?
Many words, especially academic ones, would not be learned deeply or accurately.
How are the activities of the well beaten approach?
They are based on gaining repeated practice on the same material so that it can be performed fluently