From Sterile Drills to Vocabulary Thrills: A Laughable Lexicon Adventure
Picture this: a bright, buzzing classroom filled with eager eyes, crayons littering the tables like confetti, and one lone teacher…
Category: Building Vocabulary
Vocabulary Acquisition
The acquisition of vocabulary is crucial for becoming an articulate and proficient speaker of any language, as it serves as…
Vocabulary Building in English
Vocabulary is our language repertoire, words, phrases, chunks, idioms, lexical items in general acquired or learnt. Vocabulary acquisition is the…
The Importance of Vocabulary Acquisition in Second Language Learning
As EFL learners, one of the most important aspects to focus on in order to improve their language proficiency is…
Vocabulary Builder in English
As an ESL teacher, I place significant emphasis on the importance of vocabulary teaching. For my students, mastering a rich…
Building Vocabulary: Formative Assessment Techniques to Enhance the Lexical Skills of Upper-Intermediate EFL Students
In this time and era, where time is of essence, it is quite common for EFL educators to take advantage…
Password to Vocabulary Retention
Text by: Steve Vassilakopoulos Most teachers find it frustrating when new vocabulary is presented, learnt and forgotten all in the…
Presenting and teaching English vocabulary via Semantic Feature Analysis grids and matrixes (SFA)
Text by: Evangelia Vassilakou Traditional vocabulary instruction focuses on pre teaching either difficult or low frequency vocabulary. This can cause…
Reading: Wherein L2 Vocabulary belongs
Text by: Marina Siskou A rarely defied teaching practice is the random introduction of the target language vocabulary…
Lack of vocabulary=lack of extensive reading
The approach to building basic vocabulary involves identification of the most basic vocabulary, the benefits of extensive reading, the strengths…