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Hi everyone, Welcome to our next newsletter. This week we've created a Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLS) Lesson. At the beginning of any academic English course students need training on how to record vocabulary, use a dictionary and have a range of tools at their disposal to aid them. Here's a lesson to help them become more independent in their vocabulary learning experience. See example worksheet.
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What are vocabulary learning strategies?
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Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLS) are a way to improve students’ understanding of vocabulary learning. This webpage and lesson introduces students to learning vocabulary theory and Schmitt’s Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLS). The download lesson includes a range of tasks: investigating different dictionaries, understanding dictionary terminology, recording vocabulary and using a range of digital quizzes and exercises.
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Learning vocabulary takes time...
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Learning vocabulary is a repetitive process and takes time. It has been claimed that you can learn 30-50 words a day but the actual number of words you can learn in a day is actually ‘zero’. This is because the brain doesn’t retain anything you learn in a day as long-term. The brain has on average 6,000 thoughts a day (Tseng & Poppenk, 2020) so to remember a word you learned last Wednesday but haven’t recalled since can hardly compete. In fact, most scholars agree that you need to review a word again and again many times before a word becomes ‘acquired’.
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Vocabulary Learning Strategies (VLS) [new 2022]
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This lesson is designed to improve students’ understanding of vocabulary learning. It introduces the theory of learning vocabulary and Schmitt’s VLS. The lesson includes a range of tasks: investigating different dictionaries, understanding dictionary terminology, recording vocabulary and using a range of digital quizzes and exercises. Worksheet example. Level ***** [B1/B2/C1/C2] TEACHER MEMBERSHIP / INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIP
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The AEUK Team
Newsletter #113
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