Presentation title

CW3. Activating The Lexical Approach and Making Vocabulary Memorable

Abstract

This workshop will explore the theory and execution of The Lexical Approach. Participants will become familiar with the “grammaticization of vocabulary”: learning vocabulary as systems, with rules, providing a much more effective learning tool than learning words one by one. The participants will practice identifying “chunks”: single words, word partnerships/collocations, semi-fixed expressions and fixed expressions/idioms. They will then work with classroom activity types that encourage both noticing strategies and the development of vocabulary use itself.

The age-old dilemma remains, however, of how to make vocabulary memorable for students. The participants will look at how memory is processed in the brain and consider how they and their students remember things. Classroom activities will be analyzed according to cognitive and affective depth, helping teachers decide which types of activity are most effective at which stage of learning. Finally they will look at how they can train our students to be good vocabulary learners.

Presenter 1

Susan Barduhn, Professor
SIT Graduate Institute
Susan Barduhn is Chair of SIT’s MAT low residency program . A past president of IATEFL, she has been a teacher, trainer, supervisor, manager, assessor and consultant; Director of The Language Center, Nairobi; and Deputy Director of International House, London.

Presenter 2

Form of presentation

Certified Workshop