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Vocabulary bank

A vocabulary bank is a collection of new words and phrases that the learner or class builds up as they learn.

Example
Some learners carry a collection of small cards with them. Each card has a word on it, with a definition or translation, and an example.

In the classroom
Vocabulary banks can be kept by individual learners, incorporated into language portfolios, kept as a class resource in the form of wall charts, recorded in a permanent area on the whiteboard during a series of classes, or stored on a class blog.


Comments

Wanisa Ali's picture
Wanisa Ali
Submitted on 7 March, 2009 - 23:32

Hello every body ,

It is very important to encourage students to store new ords as well as we do in banks to keep our money , because no communications without words.

To grasp the language you have to store many words as adjectives, adverbs, nouns , verbs and so on to distinguish between them and to use then when you communicate with others.

Thanks a lot