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I study English in Polish School of Higher education. I am to write my diploma paper and I chose the topic : "The effectiveness of different ways of teaching vocabulary to young learners". But I don't have any further ideas how to deal with the topic. :( I only know that it's necessary for me to give my students pretest and posttest to check the factual effectiveness. I don't know which methods would be the best to check whether they are effective to particular extend. I 'm thinking about introducing new vocab through pictures and physical objects but aren't they quite similar? :/ I'm confused... Maybe there are some people who have already done similar research or those who have some ideas. Thx for all of them :)

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Submitted on 5 December, 2008 - 21:01

Dear college;

There is a Pdf file on the following link titled as  - Using Morphological Analysis to Teach Vocabulary. In English and French Classes. By. Constance O’Sullivan and Charlotte Ebel. Teachers as Scholars Institute...
Which I think is helpful.
http://www.princeton.edu/~browning/Projects/vocabulary.pdf
Have a look at:
Teaching Vocabulary
By: Linda Diamond and Linda Gutlohn (2006)
At following site:
http://www.readingrockets.org/article/9943
And also a pdf file on this link:
http://www.eduplace.com/marketing/nc/pdf/author_pages.pdf
Finally, perhaps the newest one at UTUBE :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy8JvCr9_Eg

Hope they are helpful

A Mazinanian




 

Submitted on 13 December, 2008 - 10:45

These websites turned out to be helpful. I didn't know that I can find materials concerning methodology at UTube... However there appeared some complications when it comes to my diploma paper :( I still need materials and the titles of books that deal with "effectiveness of teaching vocab, especially to young learners".  All in all, I appreciate your help, once again Thank You Very Much !!!! 

Submitted on 13 December, 2008 - 19:35
Dear colleague,

I am glad you liked the sites but I forgot to mention the ONESTOPENGLISH.COM has a lot of useful materials on your subject of study as it is long time since I have found it very useful. Of course there are also some other British sites which can help you but I think you had better just visit this site, enroll for free and search the materials you want at:

http://www.onestopenglish.com/section.asp?sectionType=listsummary&catid=...

Also please have a look at following sites so as to find the exact files, related to what you are looking for:

For teaching vocabulary to young learners:

http://is.muni.cz/th/29895/pedf_b/Final_Thesis.pdfFr TEACHING http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/loukia/article.pdf

You can also use children literature to young learner, have a look at:

http://iteslj.org/Techniques/Brown-ChildrensLit.html

 I am sure if you spare a little time and search your subject of study on the internet you will get it soon.

Enjoy and merry Christmas

A Mazinanian

 
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