I. Teaching Tools for Vocabulary

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• I. Teaching Tools for Vocabulary
• II. Extensive Reading The Importance of
  Recycling
• III. Critical Thinking Skills and Academic
  Literacy

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• Deep reading the array of sophisticated
  processes that propel comprehension and that
  include inferential and deductive reasoning,
  analogical skills, critical analysis, reflection,
  and insight.
• (Barzillai Wolf, 2009)

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II. Teaching Tools for Vocabulary

• Instruction in learning strategies is essential
  for academic vocabulary learning and retention.
• Learners have to take responsibility for their
  academic vocabulary learning.
• (Nation Gu, 2007)

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3 Step Vocabulary Teaching

• 1. Identify words students need to know.
  (2,000 words, GSL, AWL, UWL, content class)
• 2. Teach specific vocabulary learning strategies
• 3. Practice words across skill areas reading,
  listening, speaking and writing

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Stemgo
auto 1. 2. 3 sic, dict 1. 2. 3. pre 1. 2. 3. trans 1. 2. 3.
geo 1. 2. 3. mono 1. 2. 3. mis 1. 2. 3. sequ 1. 2. 3.
ex 1. 2. 3. inter 1. 2. 3. com 1. 2. 3. form 1. 2. 3.
Nation, 1990 Hinkel, 2010
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Word Families
Verb Noun Adj Adv
conform conformity X X
X distinction distinct, distinctive Distinctly, distinctively
dominate domination dominant dominating X
X ethnicity ethnic ethnically
evaluate evaluation evaluative X
Spelling Patterns -ate Spelling Patterns -ity, -tion Spelling Patterns -ly
Scmitt Schmitt, 2005
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Missing Words

• Over the past three decades, childhood 1.
  __________ rates in America have tripled, and
  today nearly one in three children in America is
  overweight. First Lady Michelle Obama quoted
  this disturbing statistic at the White House
  Tuesday as she launched Let's Move, a nationwide
  campaign to 2. _________ childhood
  obesity.??"This isn't just about inches and
  pounds or how our kids look," she told a sixth
  grade class and members of the media. "It's about
  how our kids feel, and how they feel about
  themselves. It's about the impact we're seeing on
  every 3. ________ of their lives." ??Mrs. Obama
  first showed 4. ________ in helping
  kids with health and nutrition a year ago when
  she planted 5. _________ on the White House
  grounds. Students from Bancroft Elementary School
  in Washington, D.C., helped 6. __________ the
  garden. One of those students, sixth grader Tammy
  Nguyen, introduced the First Lady at the press
  conference and thanked her for teaching kids to
  make good food 7. _________.

Nation, 1994 Hinkel, 2010 Text Scholastic
Magazine February 10, 2010
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Focus on Form, Meaning Use
FORM What does the word look like? What word parts are recognizable in the word?
MEANING What meaning does this word form signal? What is included in this concept? What other words does this make us think of?
USE In what patterns does this word occur? What words or types of words occur with this one? Where when and how often would we expect to meet this word?
Knowledge required for receptive knowledge
(adapted from Nation, 2001)
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Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA)

• Use concordance programs to build collocation
  knowledge and provide information on word
  frequency.
• http//www.americancorpus.org/

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• number of days in which students spent any time
  in the program. Students who arrived
• permission. When you think. I should use my time
  for more productive things, tell yourself
• out how often they were used, length of time
  spent online, and sites visited but not
• self-defined computer skills, amount of time
  spent together online, and how often
• the individual involved is meant to save time but
  usually produces unnecessary
• products on display. So we're here to save you
  time and money and trouble. The editors
• Detroit. I then decided I could save valuable
  time by not stopping for a Gatorade, and
• school. Alinsky said I would be wasting my time,
  but my decision was an expression of
• trauma center that's open, wasting precious time.
  Even if that center accepts you, you
• together can string this out to cost valuable
  time to our side. What Gorbachev is doing

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What verbs occur close to the word time? What adjectives modify the word time? What other chunks of language do you find with the word time?

• What do the verbs that accompany the word time
  have in common? The adjectives?
• What do these verbs and adjectives reveal about
  the way North American English speakers
• conceptualize or think about time?
• How does your culture conceptualize or think
  about time?
• Give specific examples from your native language
  with an English translation.

Balunda Stamper, 2010
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Text Clouds

• Wordle
• http//www.wordle.net/
• Choose a text.
• Copy and paste text
• Change font, layout, and color.

marriage one big happy family open adoption
nontraditional mixed marriage single parents
interracial china different dr. spock support
replaced old new diversity families love common
thread different Obama contemporary culture
adoption 4 million
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III. Extensive Reading The Importance of
Recycling

• Vocabulary and grammar development takes a lot of
  time.
• Memory loss after
• 1 hr 56
• 24 hrs 66
• 48 hrs 72
• 6 days 75
• 1 mo 79

Miles, 2010
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Fighting Forgetting with Explicit Repetition

• Pimselur (1967) Spacing Theory
• 5 seconds, 25 seconds, 2 minutes, 10 minutes, 1
  hr, 5 hrs, 1 day, 5 days, 4 months, 2 years

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Fighting Forgetting with Natural Repetition or
Extensive Reading

• Extensive Reading (95 word knowledge)
• -provides repetition
• -provides automaticity and fluency
• -encourages incidental vocabulary learning
• -builds confidence
• -motivates
• -improves writing

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According to Miles (2010),

• structured repetition extensive reading
• LONG TERM LANGUAGE RETENTION

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IV. Critical Thinking Skills and Academic Literacy

• Only 1/3 of entering college students are
  sufficiently prepared for the two most frequently
  assigned writing tasks analyzing
  informationand synthesizing information from
  several sources.
• (Intersegmental Committee of the Academic Senates
  of California Colleges and Universities, ICAS,
  2002)

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Student tasks according to a Webster ESL Faculty
Survey

• Marketing analysis of a foreign country market
• Individual oral presentation
• Group research paper and presentation
• Marketing communications plan
• Financial analysis on a company
• Media presentation based on weeks reading
• Lead class discussions

• Essays based on readings
• Personal essays
• Research papers/reports
• Book reviews
• Reaction papers (to specific events and lectures)
• Reflections
• Critical Evaluations
• Critiques
• Case studies

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Blooms Taxonomy
Knowledge 5 Ws, define, memorize, repeat, record, list, recall, rename
Comprehension restate, summarize, discuss, describe
Application demonstrate, show, solve, interview, simulate, apply
Analysis interpret, analyze, organize, examine, arrange, group, dissect, classify
Synthesis compose, set up, plan, propose, imagine, produce, predict, invent, design, integrate
Evaluation why judge, assess, decide, measure, estimate, evaluate, deduce, criticize, convince, select, support defend
(Biesenback-Lucas, Feather, 2010)
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Kagan, Thinking Questions, 1999

• Skinny Qs Fat Qs
• -short answer -elaborated answer
• -shallow thinking -deep thinking
• High consensus Low consensus
• -right or wrong answer -no single correct
  answer
• -what to think -how to think
• Asker knows answer Asker does NOT know
• answer
• Checking for correctness Invitation
  to think

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