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>> So Bea, can you
tell me in your studies

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as a graduate student, were
you ever explicitly taught how

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to teach vocabulary
to your students?

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>> No. The focus was on teaching
grammar and on how to make

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up specific kinds of grammar
activities, structured input,

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structured output,
but never vocabulary.

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That was never, ever,
ever brought up.

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We just kind of have to
figure it out as we went.

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>> Well I wouldn't say we were
necessarily trained specifically

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how to teach vocabulary.

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We didn't have a chapter that was
how to teach vocabulary.

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Instead, what we had were
different methodologies,

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like ideas for teaching a
variety of the language tasks,

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a variety of the
language functions.

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So we would for example talk
about input, structured input

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or structured output
and so a lot

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of times those chapters
would as examples talk

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about how vocabulary acquisition
works with structured input,

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how vocabulary acquisition
works in structured output

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and instead what these chapters
would do would be to talk

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about methods people use and
techniques that instructors use

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to teach vocabulary ranging
from lists of vocabulary

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where the second
language is on one side

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and the first language
is on another

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and you're basically just
looking at the equivalents

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between both languages
and it also talked

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about for example using
diagrams and pictures.

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For example, drawing
a Pinocchio to talk

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about body parts and
things like that.

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But essentially the most
important thing for us to learn,

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to remember from all
of these things was

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that in fact what helps students
with vocabulary acquisition is

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that the ways in which you
learn vocabulary are grounded

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in meaning, something meaningful
for them and there's a context

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in which they can
look at those things.

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>> Not that I remember in
my methodology course, no.

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>> What instead was the focus?

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>> We did a lot of
communicative activities.

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We did some grammar
instruction activities.

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We talked a lot about
negotiation of meanings,

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circumlocution, but it was
at a more advanced level.

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We didn't really work on
like simple acquisition.