Transcript EAP Vocabulary: trial, error, enlightenment? . Marti Sevier

EAP Vocabulary:
trial, error, enlightenment?
Marti Sevier
English Bridge Program
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, B.C.
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EAP Vocabulary:
trial, error, enlightenment?
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The English Bridge Program
Selecting vocabulary
Introducing vocabulary
Recycling vocabulary & threading through
Testing vocabulary
Enlightenment through errors
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The English Bridge Program
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The English Bridge Program
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The independent research project
• AS: research the paper; produce
annotated bibliography, in 2 drafts
• AW: write the paper, in 3 drafts
• ACC: power point presentation
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IELTS
Academic
Skills
Academic Culture
& Communication
Academic
Writing
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The Problem of Selection
& the Academic Word List
• Former approach: let students select academic
vocabulary to study via the AWL
• New approach:
– Instructor selection
– Integration of vocabulary
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Vocabulary program aims
• Select academic vocabulary most relevant to
course material and students’ needs
• Develop tasks and practices to introduce,
recycle and test vocabulary
• Integrate vocabulary activities among 3 courses
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Selection: the Web Vocabulary Profiler and
Web Frequency Indexer
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Error #1: the pre-test
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Tasks to introduce vocabulary--1
• Use them in written work for AS. (Highlight the
words.)
• Write them on cards.
• Choose 3 or 4 and write a short story using
them.
• Highlight the words when you see them in
your reading.
• Try hard to remember their meaning.
• Look up other forms of the word.
• Memorize them for vocabulary quizzes.
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Tasks to introduce vocabulary--2
Choose 5 words and write vocabulary questions and
answers on a card, e.g.
• What are 3 definitions of _____?
• Give 3 word family members (and their parts of
speech) of _______.
• Where might you see a __________? (e.g.
appendix)
• True or False: If you (e.g. facilitate) a process, you
slow it down.
• What are 3 collocates of ( e.g. ethnic)?
• Looking at the list, choose 3 words and show how
they are related.
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Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3
1.Try to learn words in groups. Which word or its
family member might fit under the following
IELTS topic headings? Look at the examples
and add more words.
Education Science & Business
Technology
Social
issues
The arts
Provide
Interpret the Selling
instruction data
consumer
products
Ensuring
access to
technology
for
everyone
Conduct a
symphony
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Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3
2. Focus on collocation. Look up words on the
concordancer, choosing “30 lines” and the
University word list corpus. Click on Option
2, “Collocates table”, based on “frequency”.
3. Learn word family members. Using the
concordancer, click Keywords “contains” to
give you help. (Be careful, though!)
 tense, tension, tensed, Tennessee (X)
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Tasks to introduce vocabulary—3
4. Make notes on what you find.
Example:
Word
Part/s
Common collocates
of
speech
Word
family
members
Access
noun
~to, buy ~ , provide ~
accessed,
accessible
verb
~mail, information;
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Tasks to introduce vocabulary--4
For each word:
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Find the main academic definitions and the common
word family members and their parts of speech.
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Use the word or a family member in a sentence related
to your IRP topic OR an academic reading topic that
we have covered on this course. Be sure to use
collocation correctly.
Example:
Word
scope
Definition
Family members
& parts of speech
Sentence
range, extent,
capacity
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Ten years ago no one could
have predicted the scope of the
HIV problem.
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Recycling vocabulary in class
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Oral summary / recounting tasks
Students teach students
Teacher talk, questions
GroupLex and quizzes
Lab tasks
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Recycling vocabulary: a lab task
1. Choose 5 words from the Weeks 4 & 5 list.
2. Paste in 10 concordance lines for each word.
Can you draw any conclusions about
collocates for these 5 words?
3. Make notes.
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Recycling vocabulary outside class
• Highlight vocabulary in written work
• Use the AWL Highlighter in research
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Recycling vocabulary:
the IELTS Interview--1
• Question and answer
• The individual long turn: a topic
related to the interviewee
• Discussion: expansion of the
topic to invite comparison,
speculation, explanation
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Recycling vocabulary:
the IELTS Interview--2
TOPIC
The natural
world
(environment)
WORD
degrade
CHUNK
environmental
degradation
ecology
ecological
disaster/awareness
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Recycling vocabulary:
the IELTS Interview--3
EXPLAIN
significant
a gift that had great
significance for me was…
Coming to Canada was a
significant decision
because…
COMPARE
gender
In terms of gender in the
workplace, I would say that
in many ways women are
catching up to men…
SPECULATE
trend
I think space tourism will be
an important trend by
2050…
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Recycling vocabulary:
the IELTS Interview--4
Brainstorm some IELTS interview topics. Put
the topic in the circle and add relevant
vocabulary, in chunks where possible. Use the
diagrams to practice the interview.
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Testing Vocabulary--1
Vocabulary Quiz 2
Answer 15 of the following questions. You will be assessed for spelling at all
times!
1. Give three word family members and parts of speech of the word
defect.
2. Fill in the blank.
They _______________ all their spare time to their children.
3. Write two different definitions of scenario.
4. True or False? Compute means to work something out.
5. What colour is carbon usually?
6. What are three collocations of ethnic?
7. Give three word family members and their parts of speech of the
word reside.
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Testing Vocabulary--2
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Choose 10 vocabulary words from the list. Using correct word
form, spelling, collocation and appropriate definition, write a
sentence using one of the IELTS topic headings OR your IRP
topic. You are encouraged to use as many different topic
headings as you can.
Each sentence will be worth two marks based on the criteria
above. You may use your notes but not a dictionary. Refer to the
examples below.
IELTS/IRP topic Word
Sentence
IRP: Harm
reduction
approach
In Vancouver, a harm reduction approach
attempts to help substance abusers.
IRP: Herbal
medicine
supplement
Many herbalists recommend the use of
supplements because the daily diet is
inadequate.
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Testing Vocabulary--3
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Error repair: future plans
• Pre-test
 Simplify: multiple choice?
• Motivation
 Enforcement strategies
• Integration
 Plan more IELTS
preparation tasks; link
vocabulary more closely to
readings
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