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1、Unit8TeachingVocabularyByXuZhijian龙岩学院外国语学院精品课程--《英语教学法》AimsofthisunitWhataresomeoftheassumptionsaboutvocabulary?Whatdoesknowingawordinvolve?Howcanwepresentnewvocabularyitems?Whataresomeeffectivewaystoconsolidatevocabulary?Howdowehelpstudentsdevelopvocabularylearning?龙岩学院外国语学院精品课程--《英语教学法》I

2、．Understandingvocabularyandvocabularylearning.Althoughgrammarisusuallyintegratedwiththeteachingofvocabulary,westillconsideritnecessarytointroducewaystopresentandconsolidatevocabulary.龙岩学院外国语学院精品课程--《英语教学法》龙岩学院外国语学院精品课程--《英语教学法》Theteachingofvocabularyhasbeenstudiedformanydecades,therearestil

3、lmanyuncertaintiesregarding:Whatconstitutesavocabularyitem;Whichvocabularyitemsshouldbetaughtandlearned;Howvocabularycanbetaughtandlearnedmosteffectively.(orsimilarquestionsofTask1onP117.)Vocabularydoesnotjustmeansinglewords:compounds,phrasesandevenonoccasion,wholesentencescanbeitemsofvocab

4、ulary.Mostwordsinonelanguagecanbetranslatedintoanotherlanguage,butnoteverysinglewordandanequivalent.Thearticle“the”inEnglish,forexample,hasnoexactequivalentinChinese.Studentscanbeconsciouslytaughtaboutwaysoflearningvocabularysothattheybecomekeenlyawareofeveryopportunityforvocabularyexpansio

5、n.Task2Ifteachersandstudentsknowthedifferencebetweenactiveandpassivevocabulary,theycantreatthemdifferently.Translationisnotthebestwaytoexplainnewwords.English-Englishexplanationisbetterthantranslation,butagainitisnotthebestforvocabularyteaching.Therearemanyothermoreeffectiveways.AnEnglish-E

6、nglishdictionarycanbeveryhelpful,thoughbeginnersmayfinditmorecomfortabletouseabilingualdictionary.Itismoreeffectivewhenwordsofrelatedmeaningaretaughtandlearnedtogether.Studyingvocabularyinlanguagecontextsaremoreeffective.Forgettingisinevitable.Butifwordsarefrequentlyused,theyarelesseasytofo

7、rget.龙岩学院外国语学院精品课程--《英语教学法》II.Whatdoesknowingawordinvolve?knowingawordmeansknowing:itspronunciationandstress;itsspellingandgrammaticalproperties;itsmeaning;howandwhentouseittoexpresstheintendedmeaning.(四会)龙岩学院外国语学院精品课程--《英语教学法》1.Whatdoesitmeantoknowaword