What Ideas Would You Bring to the Classroom to Make the Learning of Vocabulary More Interesting and Rewarding?
Vocabulary is the knowledge of words and their meanings, and more so how these words fit into the world in which we live. It’s not something that can ever be fully mastered, but rather it is something that expands and deepens over the course of a lifetime, Steven Stahl (2005). The more one makes an effort to build word knowledge through any means possible, the richer they become in vocabulary. It is of utmost importance that as a teacher, right from the start I should encourage learners in my care to make it their business to go all out for a word treasure hunt. Learners need to be made aware that mustering a language means building tones of resources of vocabulary since vocabulary is the lifeblood of any language. This fact I will demonstrate by the way the classroom will be set up. An English language classroom must appear as an English classroom. The whole environment should be word-rich, with eye-catching visual displays to help in prompting learners during group or classroom exercises.
For my teaching venture to be a success I need to remember that inevitably my class will always comprise of students with very varied capabilities. Knowing such information will enable me as a teacher to vary the ways in which I teach my class. The mere understanding that different individuals master learning in different ways will enable me to plan my activities to that effect. One way of facilitating fair play would be to establish through one way or another different learning styles of my pupils. I will then go on to sit learners according their learning styles, and by so doing every learner can then be allowed to employ their learning style, without being intimidated by being different from peers. Inevitably some learn better through diagrams, some through logical thinking, some do well with sound and vision etc. The mere fact that people learnt differently, is a good thing because then many strategies will be used and hence the likelihood of students
For my teaching venture to be a success I need to remember that inevitably my class will always comprise of students with very varied capabilities. Knowing such information will enable me as a teacher to vary the ways in which I teach my class. The mere understanding that different individuals master learning in different ways will enable me to plan my activities to that effect. One way of facilitating fair play would be to establish through one way or another different learning styles of my pupils. I will then go on to sit learners according their learning styles, and by so doing every learner can then be allowed to employ their learning style, without being intimidated by being different from peers. Inevitably some learn better through diagrams, some through logical thinking, some do well with sound and vision etc. The mere fact that people learnt differently, is a good thing because then many strategies will be used and hence the likelihood of students