Teaching vocabulary starts with presenting. Now relate your vocabulary learning experiences to presenting new words or phrases in the classroom. Together make a list of elements which make an effective presentation of new vocabulary.
Effective presentation techniques
Possible answers: concise definition (as in a dictionary, often a super ordinate, ex.: a cat is an animal …)
detailed description
examples (hyponyms)
illustration (picture, object)
demonstration (acting, mime)
context (story or sentence in which the item occurs)
synonyms
opposites (antonyms)
associated ideas, collocations
translation
Now that the new vocabulary is presented you should practice it at the lesson. The stages of the vocabulary practice are:
Drill on Pronunciation and Spelling Practice exercises (gap-filling, matching, translation…) Communicative practice
LECTURE #6. TEACHING GRAMMAR. Plan: 1. The importance of teaching grammar. 2. Grammar techniques. 3. The role of grammar in language teaching. 4. How to Teach Grammar Grammar is a system of rules governing the conventional arrangement and relationship of words in a sentence. And, when we use the word grammar, we refer to sentence-level rules. Be careful not to confuse the term grammar with rules governing the relationship among sentences, which we refer to as discourse rules. Grammatical competence is necessary for communication to take place, but not sufficient to account for all production and reception in language. As Larsen-Freeman (1991) pointed out, grammar is one of three dimensions of language that are interconnected. Grammar gives us the form or the structures of language themselves, but those forms are literally meaningless without a second dimension, that of meaning/semantics, and a third dimension, pragmatics. In other
words, grammar tells us how to construct a sentence (word order, verb and noun systems, modifiers, phrases, clauses, etc.). Semantics tells us something about the meaning of words and strings of words—or, I should say, meanings, because there may be several. Then pragmatics tells us about which of several meanings to assign given the context of a sentence.
