It is, after all, one of the most spoken languages in the world. Nation author of teaching eslefl reading and writing. Tesol and applied language studies research by postgraduate students in australia and new zealand. Part 1 developing fluency in reading paul nation youtube. The new edition also addresses the growing demand for preparing internaional students for academic and professional studies. It is important that students be limited to oneword clues.
New ways series is a collection of activities and exercises for classroom practice. These activities give teaching suggestions whatever the focus of your class grammar, listening, speaking, writing, or reading. Learning strategies for vocabulary development 109 administration is labelled. This handbook offers more than 100 activities for setting up students selfselected reading and weaving it into the language curriculum. Teaching vocabulary by paul nation and jonathan newton. Hes currently working on either a new book, or a new edition of this one. Thus, vocabulary programs should be designed to support childrens word learn ing through a combination of approaches to teaching, direct instruction, and incidental word learning. Paul nation teaches in the school of linguistic s and applied language studies at victoria university of wellington, new zealand. This guide describes activities used by language teachers in developing students oral communication skills. Teaching vocabulary paul nation victoria university of. Because vocabulary is a central building block for all learners, new ways in teaching vocabulary, revised is designed to make vocabulary teaching almost effortless. Presenting vocabulary teachingenglish british council. New ways in teaching vocabulary edition 1 by paul nation.
Teaching vocabulary in the english as a foreign language efl context is challenging. Techniques for teaching vocabulary victoria university. This revised volume builds on the work by paul nation, one of the leading researchers and teachers in the field and represents the most recent developments, including technology, which lends value and ease to teaching vocabulary. December 20 students pool their knowledge of vocabulary and create a coherent passage describing one characters activities in a video passage. Reflect on your practice and revise instruction to ensure student learning. From paul nation s lecture at compass day, seoul south korea. Each idea is described briefly, with information given about appropriate proficiency levels, specific aims. Many of the activities are really good and easy to use in esl or efl classroom. However, there are some activities which dont follow recent studies and theories in vocabulary acquisition and teaching.
Classroom teachers contributed more than 100 stepbystep activities that fit any context, learner, proficiency level, or technology. Teaching vocabulary by paul nation and jonathan newton by. Research on second language acquisition can be interpreted to show that a wellbalanced language course should contain four major strands meaningfocused input, meaningfocused. Folse is principal at language academy, in maebashi, japan. It is now well accepted that the chief cause of the achievement gap between socioeconomic groups is a language gap. When we plan the vocabulary goals of a longterm course of study, we can look at three kinds of. Innovative classroom techniques by paul nation 19950101 paul nation on. Drawing on theory and research, this presentation introduces major issues in vocabulary in secondforeign language learning and teaching. Isbn 9781942223009 over 20 years ago, vocabulary specialist paul nation published a key edited collection entitled news ways in teaching vocabulary. Learning new words and phrases i t is vitally important for learners to build a large vocabulary in the language they are studying. They include rote rehearsal, the use of visual aids, roleplaying, vocabulary learning in a specific cultural context etc. Advanced eal learners and learners with english as a mother tongue need to acquire the more formal vocabulary and register required for academic success and will benefit from these teaching and learning strategies. Free activities from new ways in teaching vocabulary. This book includes one form of nations vocabulary levels test that readers can use to diagnose their students or their own english vocabulary the test isnt really sensitive if the testee knows less than 3000 words.
Paul nation is emeritus professor in applied linguistics at the school of linguistics and applied language studies lals at victoria university of wellington, new zealand. This is a great collection of a lot of new ways in teaching vocabulary. Word sorts contextualizing key vocabulary personal dictionaries interactive word wall. Teaching vocabulary paul nation victoria university of wellington, new zealand biography.
The main problem with vocabulary teaching is that only a few words and a small part of what is required to know a word can be dealt with at any one time. Ideally, the choice of activities to go into a course should be guided by principles which are well supported by research. This book will help you develop the vocabulary component of your language teaching program with more than 100 activities organized to reflect the. Describe essential components of vocabulary and what it means to know a word. As a quick passive vocabulary measure administered together with the questionnaires, the 3000word level of nations 2001vocabulary levels test was combined with goulden, nation, and read 1990. Teaching vocabulary teachingenglish british council bbc.
Presenting vocabulary teachingenglish british council bbc. His specialist interests are language teaching methodology and vocabulary learning. Students were asked to work in teams to match the adjective sets from around the room. What english language learners perceive to be effective and ineffective strategies seyyed hatam tamimi sad1 and fereshte rajabi2 vocabulary constitutes an essential part of every languagelearning endeavour and deserves scholarly attention. Teaching vocabulary in context, combining vocabulary with reading and writing. Principles guiding vocabulary learning through extensive reading paul nation victoria university of wellington new zealand extensive reading is one of a range of activities that can be used in a language learning course. Paul nation, english language institute, wellington, new zealand. The teachers teaching second language follow varieties of techniques and methods for teaching vocabulary. Prof paul nation school of linguistics and applied. Vocabulary teaching procedures 107 computerassisted vocabulary learning 108 using concordances 111.
It first outlines important assumptions, observations, and approaches, and then draws implications for language. This guide is a collection of practical ideas for teaching vocabulary and vocabulary development skills to learners of a second language. This picture was taken from a lesson revising adjectives and the english was written in one colour and the german in another colour. Find out about flashcards, backs to the board and word bag activities in our teaching vocabulary poster that you can take into your classroom or have in the staffroom. He has taught in indonesia, thailand, the united states, finland and.
This book will help you develop the vocabulary component of your language teaching program with more than 100 activities organized to reflect the major elements of a second language course. Classroom teachers contributed more than 100 stepbystep activities that fit any context, learner, proficiency level, or. Introducing nouns, things, objects, animals, etc visual elements work best with concrete nouns, but try to go beyond flashcards and illustrations. Activities are presented for instruction in english as a second language as well as other second languages. Reading at a reasonable speed, or reading fluently, is an important goal for second language learners. A third way of deciding vocabulary learning goals is to find how much vocabulary you need to know in order to make certain uses of english like read a newspaper, read a novel, watch a movie, or take part in a conversation. When video is used for language learning purposes, students often focus on just the dialogue. Learning arabic is something many people want to do. Nov 30, 2014 because vocabulary is a central building block for all learners, new ways in teaching vocabulary, revised is designed to make vocabulary teaching almost effortless. Vocabulary is a basic of one learns a foreign language.
Vocabulary teaching procedures 107 computerassisted vocabulary learning 108 using concordances 111 research on cavl 112 4 vocabulary and listening and speaking 114 what vocabulary knowledge is needed for listening. Paul nation is reader in applied linguistics at victoria university of wellington, new zealand. He has taught in indonesia, thailand, the united states, finland, and japan. Incidental vocabulary learning is limited due to a lack of second language l2 input, and most words are. Paul nation, victoria university of wellington, new zealand. Hirsh and nation 1992, for example, tried to find out how many words you would need to know to read a novel written for. New ways in teaching vocabulary edition 1 available in paperback. Vocabulary link new vocabulary words to concepts previously learned in class within content area. It should go without saying that no language but english should be used in this activity. Applying second language research to classroom teaching.
Remember though that the average native speaker uses around only five thousand words in everyday speech. Boasting more than 300 million speakers across the globe, arabic is considered to be a universal language and is currently experiencing amazing growth. Most are contributed by teachers of english as a second language, but the activities may be. With hundreds of thousands of words in the english language, teaching vocabulary can seem like a very daunting prospect. Testing and teaching vocabulary victoria university. Michael graves 2006 offers a framework for successful vocabulary programs that supports effective teaching and students development of word.
If the survival vocabulary has not been made for your language, get a speaker of that language to help you make it, using the english survival list as a guide. Paul nations discussion on principles guiding vocabulary. Averil coxhead school of linguistics and applied language. His specialist interests are the teaching and learning of vocabulary and language teaching methodology. Academic vocabulary is developed best when teachers attend to the important terms directly, providing guidance to students in identi fying and learning these words and phrases. This article looks at what needs to be taught when teaching vocabulary and ways to present and teach vocabulary. When you start learning the language, get hold of the 120 item survival vocabulary for that language from paul nation s web site, and learn that using word cards. Post it notes post it notes are very versatile when it comes to teaching and learning vocabulary. Consider vocabulary instruction as one way to level the playing field for all of your students. They set up the main frame of teaching and learning new vocabulary. Most are contributed by teachers of english as a second language, but the activities may be appropriate for teaching other languages. So, here are 10 great ways to teach english vocabulary, outlined for each of the stages of vocabulary acquisition. When you start learning the language, get hold of the 120 item survival vocabulary for that language from paul nations web site, and learn that using word cards.
Meaning form use form and meaning concepts and referents associations spoken form written form word parts grammatical functions collocations constraints on use is the word a loan word in l1. Tips for quickly and efficiently learning arabic vocabulary. Introduction teaching and learning vocabulary have been covered mainly by educationalist and linguists. Because of requests for help with teaching vocabulary from cachers in several different. Teaching vocabulary paul nation victoria university of wellington. Language emerges first as words, both historically, and in terms of. Innovative techniques of teaching vocabulary at the.
After reading this article, i cannot help but recall my favorite high school teachers sra. One way to approach the issue of how many words learners need to know is to find out how many and what kinds of vocabulary are in. Vygotsky a word is a complex phenomenon all languages have words. Plan ways to support learners to learn vocabulary independently. Different types of instructional modes, approaches, vocabulary building activities and skills proved to be effective in developing children and college students vocabulary in l2 environments.
There are certain techniques of teaching vocabulary and strategies for learning vocabulary. My ideal vocabulary teaching course this paper describes the principles and activities in what i consider to be a. Effectiveness of structural method of teaching vocabulary. Deliberately teaching vocabulary is one of the least efficient ways of developing learners vocabulary knowledge but nonetheless it is an important part of a wellbalanced vocabulary programme. Item detail new ways in teaching vocabulary, revised. From paul nations lecture at compass day, seoul south korea. Why is vocabulary acquisition so important in second and. December 20 free activities from new ways in teaching vocabulary. How large a vocabulary is needed for reading and listening. Best practice in vocabulary teaching and learning paul nation. New ways in teaching vocabulary paul nation learning. Hirsch noted the importance of teaching literacy in schools.