Conclusion The exercise allows clear practice in production and reception and gives concise feedback to individual learners as to where their problems lie in these areas and how to repair them. Often these are very simple physical questions such as not conscious the lips as in / u: / in fool , which the teacher can help them focus on.
This, in turn, allows discussion on learning strategies for pronunciation which can be drawn up it the classroom.
It is a communicative exercise as it involves disagreement, repair and ( hopefully !) agreement among other things.
Many language learners feel self conscious and negative about their pronunciation . To effectively deal with this question in the class and enable learners to see an improvement, is invariably a great psychological boost.
I have used these activities with learners from many different cultural and language backgrounds and they have invariably been seen as both very useful and fun.
LECTURE #5. TEACHING VOCABULARY. Plan: 1. Guidelines for the communicative treatment of vocabulary instruction. 2. The characteristics of the words. 3. Presentation of the meanings of words. 4. Presentation techniques of teaching vocabulary. Vocabulary was also the focus of drills, exercises, and memorization efforts. Then, as grammar fell into some disfavor a few decades ago, vocabulary instruction tended to go with it. Currently, in our attention to communicative classrooms that are directed toward content, tasks, or interaction, we are once again giving vocabulary the attention it deserves. But this attention now comes from quite a different perspective: rather than viewing vocabulary items as a long and boring list of words, vocabulary is seen in its central role in contextualized, meaningful language. Below are some guidelines for the communicative treatment of vocabulary instruction.
1. Allocate specific class time to vocabulary learning.
In the hustle and bustle of our interactive classrooms, sometimes we get so caught up in lively group work and meaningful communication that we don't pause to devote some attention to words. After all, words are basic building blocks of language; in fact, survival level communication can take place quite intelligibly when people simply string words together — without any grammatical rules applying at all! So, if we're interested in being communicative, words are among the first order of business.
