1. The document discusses the importance of vocabulary learning and provides strategies for helping students learn vocabulary effectively. It notes that knowing a word involves understanding its form, meaning, and use. 2. It recommends teaching vocabulary learning strategies, finding out students' individual learning styles, and incorporating a variety of exercises into daily lessons. These exercises could include word lists, games, and using vocabulary in reading, writing, and speaking activities. 3. The document also suggests using online tools and resources to make vocabulary learning more engaging for today's digital learners, through activities that allow collaboration, communication, and personalized learning.

1. Vocabulary: How important is it in language learning? Rubena St. Louis, Universidad Simon Bolivar [email_address] How can my students become active learners?

2. Why do we need words? Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study. Aldous Huxley

4. How many words should a foreign language student know? 2000 most frequent word families and the Academic Word List ensures a coverage of 90% of an academic text. Nation and Waring, 1977

5. What the researchers say…. 13.3 15.7 10.9 7.8 Other 8.5 3.9 1.7 1.9 AWL 4.6 4.7 5.1 6 2000 73.5 75.6 82.3 84.3 1000 Academic text % Newspapers % Fiction % Conversation % Levels

8. What’s “knowing” a word? Form Meaning Use

9. Factors involved. Motivation Noticing Repetition Generative use Involvement

10. How can I help them learn? What do I have to do?

12. Aren’t learners the same?

15. Potential for use Learning environment Language learner Learning objectives Delivery Tools

26. Some examples

27. Classroom activities 1 Word lists Flash cards, word cards, personal glossary Recognition Scrambled words Matching Word games Word formation Bingo Word challenge Dictation Oral and written Association Classification Semantic mapping

28. Classroom activities 2 . Recall Dicto-gloss Retelling stories Use Research logs Reading logs Writing stories Word research Personal interest

29. Essential websites

30. Teaching tools

31. Examples with web profiler 1 Return

32. Online resources: Dictionaries Meanings and origins of phrases and expressions. Thesaurus, dictionary, translator Word games, word of the day Pronunciation Meaning of the word in context. Sample sentences .

33. Online resources: Dictionary 2 Meaning of the word in different contexts. Words related to the target word and used in the same context. Images associated with the word. Audio pronunciation. Allows you to hear the pronunciation of the word .

34. Let’s play! Allows the retrieval of vocabulary in a fun way. Encourages students to become autonomous learners by constructing their own vocabulary lists and then testing themselves. Allows students to practice vocabulary and compete against themselves.