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6.2 The role of teacher in teaching vocabulary

To teach new words by involving students in contexts will make the students active. ?Turning the long word lists into communicative activities will require the students to analyze and process language more deeply and help them to put information into long term memory.?(Gairns & Redman. 1986:90). Some changes should take place since rote-learning no longer meets the communicative needs of modern China. A meaningful task is realistic. A teacher can be able to

make it easier for his students to memorize the words and thus increase their interest, motivation and enthusiasm in learning English.

6.3.Teaching activities in learning vocabulary

There are several ways for teachers to make vocabulary learning meaningful and enjoyable. Some are listed below according to different stage of word teaching.

6.3.1 Ways of presenting new vocabulary

Presenting new words can be made meaningful and communicative. Teachers can employ the following techniques: using real objects; miming or acting; using pictures; using the context; defining; or using word diagrams.

6.3.2 Ways of teaching aspects of vocabulary

Teachers can use word fields, word chains or word-formation to teach different aspects of vocabulary. Students will find it enjoyable to work with vocabulary and much easier to memorize them.

6.3.3 Instruct the students to review promptly frequetly

The cognition theory advocates that in the foreign language teaching the intelligence factors such as the observation, the memory, the thought, the imagination must be fully developed.The importance of cognition rules applied to raising the students? communicative ability of foreign languages should also be emphasized. German psychologist Hermann Ebbinghaus, after studying forgetting phenomenon, discovered that in the short time after studying, the speed of forgetting goes quickly, and many contents were forgotten, later then the speed of forgetting will gradually slow down, after a long period of time, one?s memory nearly no longer forgot anything.

7. Research design

7.1 subjects

Based on the rationale, Some task-based activities are designed using the word lists from three units in Junior English for China Book 2B as the material. (Unit 16 What a good, kind girl; Unit 17You must be more careful; Unit 18Seeing the doctor .)

Meaningful and communicative activities were to be designed in teaching vocabulary so that the

students could learn English words more efficiently and get satisfactory results. Techniques and ways discussed above are to be used to achieve the aims.

7.2 procedure

Week 1 Activity 1

Presenting new words

For use with the word list of Junior English for China, Book2B, Unit 16

Purpose: to practise using different ways of presenting new words.

Instructions: Students work together, in pairs or in groups to read out the word when the teacher shows a picture, mime an action, show an object, give a definition or a context.

Procedure: The teacher tells the students to read out a word according to the situation given by the teacher. Then he/she shows pictures and real objects, mimes actions, and gives definitions or contexts. After the teacher finishes the demonstration, he/she asks a volunteer student to act as the teacher and the rest to read out the words. After that the teacher gets the students to work in pairs or in groups. Each student should get a chance to act as the demonstrator. The teacher circulates and monitors the activity.

Week 2 Activity 2

Teaching different aspects of words

For use with the word list of Junior English for China, Book 2B, Unit 17.

Purpose: to practise using different techniques of learning different aspects of new words.

Instructions: The teacher demonstrates how to use word fields, word chains and word formation to learn new words. The students work in pairs, in groups and then together to present their achievements.

Procedure: The teacher shows the students how to use word fields, word chains and word formation to learn the aspects of words. Then the students use these techniques to learn the new words. They work in pairs and then in groups to present their achievements. Finally they work together with the teacher and demonstrate what they have discovered.

Week 3 Activity 3

Reviewing vocabulary

For use with the word list of Junior English for China, Book 2B, Unit 18.

Purpose: revision activities of the words learned in this unit to get the students revise the words efficiently.

Instructions: Students work individually. They fill in a table with all the new words earned in unit 18 of their textbook according how well he/she has mastered the words. When they have filled in the table individually, ask them to get into pairs and discuss their table. When this is finished, this pair should join another pair and they should all exchange information. If there are still some words left that they don?t feel sure of, then they should call the teacher to help. The teacher should be circulating around the class and helping whenever necessary. …… 此处隐藏：3039字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……