Comments on: Four approaches to teaching vocabulary

By: Hassan Solouki

Hassan Solouki — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 21:12:49 +0000

Hi,

Vocabulary is not something that a teacher is solely able to teach; the major onus of vocabulary is on learners’ shoulder and the teacher is just a guider and/or facilitator.

An efficient and effective teacher should do his/her best to motivate the learners and give them reasonable clues.
……. There are a lot to say, but the only thing I can say here is to study more scientifically.

Thanks,
H. Solouki

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:18:28 +0000

Hi Mohammad

Here is a list of links to articles and phrase lists for precisely that issue:

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/classroom-language-links/

By: mohammad

mohammad — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:20:52 +0000

I’m English teacher , I teach in a secondary school in kSA.I have a problem in my class and I wish you could help me with some articles or ideas;
I always try to make them use English but they dont respond. and when I use English without any Arabic statements , they seem to misunderstand every thing even the page number.

By: Mann

Mann — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:53:37 +0000

Thanks Alex for your article. I found it very helpful. I had to write a essay on how to teach Lexis to new students and I got some good ideas. Thanks for putting your article up!

By: Armine

Armine — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:03:14 +0000

Hi dear Alex,

I read and liked your useful article. I’ve just started working on my MA thesis which is about transferring passive to active vocabulary via writing. Do you have any suggestion?my target group are teenagers of elementry level.

Thanks

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 09:19:58 +0000

Hi Jamal

Thanks for your nice comments. We would be of course delighted if you passed it onto other people. No need to ask!

By: Jamal Bakhtyari

Jamal Bakhtyari — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 06:37:21 +0000

It was so great. If you don’t mind I will represent it to my Colleagues in the original format.
With best regards: Jamal Bakhtyarim, a high school English teacher at Iran

By: Aadel

Aadel — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:12:53 +0000

HELLO. THANKS FOR YOUR ARTICLE. I’VE JUST SAVED IT.
I’LL BE GRATEFUL IF YOU DO ME A FAVOUR AND SEND ME ANY ARTICLE ABOUT TEACHING VOCABULARY TO EFL LEARNERS. I DO NEED IT FOR MY MA THESIS.

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:05:08 +0000

Thanks Bahar for your vocabulary learning game, which sounds great. I’ll try and write more articles on vocabulary games, and listening as H Solouki suggests, soon

By: Alex Case

Alex Case — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:03:58 +0000

Some of the articles linked to from here should help:

http://www.tefl.net/alexcase/tesol/classroom-language-links/

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:55:22 +0000

Hi
I’m English teacher , I teach in a secondary school in Iraq.I have a problem in my class and I wish you could help me with some articles or ideas;
I always try to make them use English but they dont respond. and when I use English without any Arabic statements , they seem to misunderstand every thing even the page number.
Thanks

By: H.Solouki

H.Solouki — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:50:43 +0000

it was great; may you send me of such articles about the approaches for Listening?
I would be thankful to you

By: bahar

bahar — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:52:14 +0000

hi dear ALEX
it was so usefull for me
i want to say somthing too
i use dominos word to teach vocabulary
if i want to teach none i write the single word on the left side and pulural word another side of board so i take them to the students and make groups
so game start by singleword
they have fun time and learn the vocab by playing
i wish it be new and make help to others