Teaching Vocabulary Through Hip Hop
Nov 2018
Bloomberg QuickTake
Teaching Vocabulary Through Hip Hop
Nov 2018
Bloomberg QuickTake
Reading > Vocabulary
Nov 2018
Bloomberg QuickTake
Reasoning Tools (2016)
The Psychology of Thinking – with Richard Nisbett
The Royal Institution, Jun 22, 2016
Reasoning Tools for the Information Age
6:22
Vocabulary has increased
The more words you have, the more concepts you have.
The more concepts you have, the smarter you hare.
related:
https://franzcalvo.wordpress.com/2015/06/10/why-our-iq-levels-are-higher-than-our-grandparents
7:34
Calculus is routinely taught in high school
7:40
there’s been no continuous change: Scandinavia
Scandinavia does a better job than the rest of us bringing up the bottom
industrial revolution skills
10:18
Examples of the new tools: Statistics and probability theory
– sample
– population
– sample bias
– randomness
– law of large numbers (23:30)
– normal distribution
– standard deviation
– statistical significance
– regression to the mean (29:27-> 32:32)
26:57 sophomore slump, second novels, albums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophomore_slump
– base rate
– correlation (odds) 17:55
Perceived and actual correlations acrross two occasions and across 20 (21:44)
+ abilities (test scores)
+ traits (honesty)
10:47 Scientific methodology
– control group
– randomized control experiment
– confounded variable
multiple regression analysis (39:40)
control for social class: the prestige of their occupation
– self-selection
– independence of observations
– natural experiment
– artifact
11:01 Decision Theory
– cost/benefit analysis
– opportunity cost (48:59)
– sunk cost (52:31)
– loss aversion
26:57 sophomore slump, second novels, albums
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophomore_slump
– base rate
– correlation (odds) 17:55
Perceived and actual correlations acrross two occasions and across 20 (21:44)
+ abilities (test scores)
+ traits (honesty)
The Lexical Notebook > Vocabulary Organizer
Vocabulary Organizer > Using word maps
Cross-Situational Learning
Cross-Situational Learning
in chapter: Open Learning Environments
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/263696402_Cross-Situational_Learning
Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning,
Springer, 2012
Editors: N. Seel
https://www.springer.com/us/book/9781441914279?gclid=EAIaIQobChMItpqF0K6W4gIVUNbACh0HNAgBEAQYAiABEgIqpvD_BwE
Synonyms:
associative learning
children learn a lexicon containing many thousands of associations between
words and their meanings, at the rate of around ten new words a day.
Word Wizardry (Susan B. Neuman)
Word Wizardry: Vocabulary Enhancement in Early Childhood, Prek Through Grade 1
by Susan B. Neuman
https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/3493773334438999553
34:41 Children learn through frequency of words. we had to repeat a word 28 different times, in different ways, for a child to easily remember that word.
43:41 is there a vocabulary-rich environment?
44:40 book desserts: children don’t have access to books
46:23 books in every c…
47:05 compare & contrast
engage in justification
53: thematic vs. categories
57: 8-10 words each week
Opportunities for GUIDED PRACTICE:
– pictures; rhymes; riddles
– call and response techniques
58: GUIDED PRACTICE: you’re there to correct the student immediately
1:00 informal children monitoring
How are these things all alike?
Vocabulary: explicit vs. implicit
December 12, 2012
http://www.readingrockets.org/blogs/common-core-classroom/55272
Isabel Beck’s Book, Bringing Words to Life
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/teaching-ccss-critical-vocabulary-marilee-sprenger
4. let students compose jingles or songs for words and definitions
9. Create vocabulary word pages in a notebook.
Dr. Joan Kang Shin
Literacy Instruction for Young EFL Learners
2016
National Geographic Learning: Young Learners
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYuzKEv8KcxMlXQxy0UIzog
Dr. Joan Kang Shin discusses how literacy activities can be introduced with learners as young as pre-school age and provide the building blocks for balanced literacy programming for young EFL learners.
conceptual habilities in L2
16:00 phonological awareness
17:16 phonemic awareness
Green Eggs and Ham
20:12 Chicka Chicka
23:56 Hot Potato Game
29:21 “BINGO”, a game for spelling words
30:05 Valuable dispositions of early literacy instruction
34:50 skills integration
38:53 Five helpful building blocks for an effective EFL literacy program
46:52 shared reading
Picture card games
Practicing Vocabulary with Picture Cards
National Geographic Learning: Young Learners
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYuzKEv8KcxMlXQxy0UIzog
photographs stimulate curiosity
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Ideas for using flashcards
Macmillan ELT Spain, 2013
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Playing Picture Card Games With Very Young Learners
National Geographic Learning: Young Learners
2015
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYuzKEv8KcxMlXQxy0UIzog
‘Stop!’, a Picture Card game
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Hands-On Games
National Geographic Learning: Young Learners
Dr. Joan Kang Shin
a game that allows learners to touch realia
Brick words. Mortar words
Explicit Vocabulary Teaching Strategies
AmericanGraduateDC
active and generative tasks:
– discussion
– writing activities
– graphic organizers (filling up information)
brick words
mortar words: functions, characteristics
Isabel L. Beck & Margaret G. McKeown
– tier I
– tier II
– tier III
Tier Two Vocabulary Instruction
SanBdoCitySchools
Building Vocabulary
McGraw-Hill Education PreK-12
Words, Concepts & Complex Text (TextProject 2013)
Words, Concepts & Complex Text
TextProject, 2013
close reading
How Vocabulary Is Learned
https://elt.oup.com/catalogue/items/global/teacher_development/how_vocabulary_learned/9780194403559
1. Which words should be learned?
2. Learning burden
3. Vocabulary size and growth
4. Conditions contributing to vocabulary learning
5. Analysing vocabulary learning activities
6. Learning vocabulary in different contexts
7. Developing autonomous learners of vocabulary
8. Developing an effective vocabulary learning programme
9. Resources for vocabulary learning
10. Key questions about vocabulary learning
10 new words per day
Exploring Psychology
Ninth Edition ©2014
David G Myers
http://www.macmillanlearning.com/Catalog/static/worth/myersbridge
CHAPTER 9 : THINKING AND LANGUAGE > Language Development
p. 384
How many words did you learn during the years between your first birthday and your high school graduation?
The answer is about 60,000 (Bloom, 2000; McMurray, 2007).
That averages (after age 1) to nearly 3500 words each year, or nearly 10 each day!
Bloom, P. (2000). How children learn the meanings of words.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
McMurray, B. (2007). Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion. Science,
317, 631.
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Children can learn 860 words per year (That’s 2 words a day!)
http://www.georgialiteracy.org
eBook of Vocabulary Teaching and Learning Research
A Focus On Vocabulary:
http://www.prel.org/products/re_/ESO419.htm ???????????
Effective Instructional Strategies Series
Teaching Vocabulary Explicitly
By Susan Hanson and Jennifer F.M. Padua
Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
© PREL 2011
http://prel.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/vocabulary_lo_res.pdf
http://prel.org/resources/effective-instructional-strategies-series
Dec 17, 2010
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/vocabulary-instruction-teaching-tips-rebecca-alber
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/vocabulary_tips.htm
How to learn vocabulary
http://esl.fis.edu/learners/advice/vocab.htm
5 Tips for Helping Students to Really Learn Vocabulary
https://oupeltglobalblog.com/2011/08/16/5-tips-for-helping-students-to-really-learn-vocabulary/
Why Teach Vocabulary?
http://eps.schoolspecialty.com/EPS/media/Site-Resources/Downloads/articles/Why_Teach_Vocabulary.pdf
http://www.jocrf.org/resources/vocabulary/fun-vocabulary-resources
http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/05/vocabulary-size
https://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2011/07/vocabulary
testyourvocab.com
http://testyourvocab.com/blog/2013-05-10-Summary-of-results
17,100
By year 1, children are capable of understaing up to approx 20000 words
Department of Education and Early Childhood Development
http://slideplayer.com/slide/8708354
Learning words:
6 yrs 15,000 words
As many as 8 new words per day
http://slideplayer.com/slide/5228774
http://www.thinkmap.com
https://www.vocabulary.com/about
https://www.quora.com/How-many-words-does-an-average-English-speaker-know
The Guardian, 12 August 1986, cited in David Crystal, The English Language, 2002, p46
vocabulary growth
related:
from 19,000 to 200,000 words for college graduate students (Beck & McKeown, 1991) …
Researchers have concluded that students add approximately 2,000 to 3,500 words yearly to their reading vocabularies (Anderson & Nagy, 1992; Beck & McKeown, 1991; Hiebert, 2005).
https://tamu.instructure.com/courses/2640584/pages/guidelines-for-effective-esl-instruction-a3?module_item_id=51030150
March 2020
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Beck, I. L., & McKeown, M. G. (1991). Conditions of vocabulary acquisition. In R. Barr, M. Kamil, P. Mosenthal, & P. D. Pearson (Eds.), Handbook for reading research (Vol. 2, pp. 789-814). New York, NY: Longman.
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Anderson, R. C., & Nagy, W. E. (1992). The vocabulary conundrum. American Educator, 16, 14-18, 44-47.
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Hiebert, E. H. (2005). In pursuit of an effective, efficient vocabulary curriculum for elementary students. In E. H. Hiebert & M. L. Kamil (Eds.), Teaching and learning vocabulary: Bringing research to practice. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
