>> Okay so I would like to know how many
of you are currently TAs or AIs?
Okay, so a good number of you.
How many of you have actually had training
in how to teach vocabulary?
[ Laughter ]
I take it that means a little bit.
Well if so, what exactly were your experiences in terms
of being trained or just being told how to teach vocabulary
or maybe even, what you read in the annotated edition
of your first year textbook?
What were the recommendations on how to teach vocabulary?
Anke?
>> That you have to repeat a vocabulary item
like 16 times before,
or the students repeat it 16 times before they actually
internalize it.
>> Okay, and by repeating you mean see it recur, and?
Okay so not repeated orally 16 times, not necessarily?
>> Not necessarily.
>> Okay. I just wanted to clarify for everyone.
Okay. Very good and were you told how you could do this?
>> Talk.
[ Laughter ]
>> Talk a lot, right?
>> Mm hmm.
>> Okay. Anyone else?
Yes.
>> Teach it in context, not just hand them lists and then say "go
and study", but as an interactive,
through communication or with images.
>> Okay. Very good.
So teach it within a context, right, or some type
of visual input along with the written word
or aural input as well.
Okay, good.
Anyone else?
Yes.
>> Well, you can play games,
which you like for instance memorize what others said
and you have to repeat it.
>> Okay. Very good.
>> Or bridge-building exercises where you like connect your item
with other thoughts or other items.
>> Right, absolutely.
>> It was reading, but not real training as such.
So it was you know reading for example Nation's book.
>> Okay, that's pretty extensive.
>> It's very extensive.
>> Explanation on.
Right.
>> Right. Sometimes a little bit too much information.
>> Exactly.
Right.
>> But as far as training, it's been kind of scanty.
>> Okay. All right.
Good. Yes?
>> And also, you can teach your students vocabulary learning
strategies from dictionary use or some pneumonic devices
to help them to become independent learners.
>> Okay, very good.
Yes?
>> I know our focus is on first year, but for more advanced
or even second semester vocabulary I think for myself
when I was learning and I like to do with my students is
to see what they already know about that topic and to pull
that out of them first before introducing all the lists
of words [inaudible].
>> Right so that they can build on prior knowledge.
Right. And make connections
within the context they already have.
Okay, very good.
>> I know like I learned from another teacher
in the same school, like how she did it
which I thought was pretty cool with pictures and PowerPoint 00:03:22.070 and then another, just like a 15, 20 minute training
on like introducing vocab through like a story
that the teacher can say, tell the students.
>> Okay and was this at a first year level as well?
>> Yeah, first, second year high school.
>> Okay.