Hello everyone,
Now that this week's main topic is web research and useful sites, I'd like to share a site with you, believing that you'll find it absolutely beneficial.As we all know, vocabulary development is vital in language learning and unfortunately a big obstacle for the students. In fact the situation is harder if these students are preparing for a nation-wide or international level English test and have a limited time ahead. I mean 3 or 6 months. they need a vocabulary material which will introduce them at least 80% of words they may encounter in such exams.
www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/AWL/ is the place where I send such students of mine.Here they learn most frequent academic words and have the opportunity to practice them as the site provides a definition of each word, its pronunciation, how it is used in a sentence and 18 interactive exercise for each sublist, which makes our digital natives more pleased. There are 10 sublists, each consisting of 60 words -only in list 10 there are 30. In the follow-up exercises, the students are tested not only on the exact word in the list but its derived form as well,like analyze-analysis. So they learn and practice 570 x 3 words at the same time.
For the teachers who'dlike to expand on these lists there two more sites /www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/awlhighlighter.htm ------- /www.nottingham.ac.uk/~alzsh3/acvocab/awlgapmaker.htm to prepare your own exercises or to highlight academic words students encounter in any passage they read.
I have been using this site for almost 7 years in my exam preparation classes. And I can say my students feel very lucky because in their limited preparation time they don't have to deal with multiple vocabulary sources but just one and it contributes a great deal to their achievement.
Hope you 'll find it useful and practical as much as I do.
Dear Sebnem,
ReplyDeleteThanks a lot for sharing such a useful link!
I've just visited www.englishvocabularyexercises.com/AWL/ and looked at the interactive exercises. You're right! It provides a lot of practice with the academic words. Besides, these interactive exercises promote learner autonomy. Students can complete these exercises at their own pace and convenience. Perfect for those who are heading for Standard International English Language tests!
Muhammad Rashid
Hi sebnem,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing nice links. I have bookmarked them in delicious.I agree with you words that it's usually to hard for students to learn things in a short space of time especially when it involves learning vocabulary to compete in assessments. Yes, contextualizing language and using technology, things can get easier for the language teacher.
Hi Sebnem,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the links.You are right. It is hard for that student to learn things in a limited time especially when it involves language learning.Hope that you had a great week of learning.
Hi Sebnem,
ReplyDeleteThe links are so useful and interesting for students. Thanks for sharing them. Good luck
Hi Sebnem,
ReplyDeleteI also use the AWL for my students. I'm a huge believer in the importance of vocabulary, and I've taught the AWL for a long time.
Thanks so much for posting the links.
Donna
Hello Sebnem,
ReplyDeleteSo nice of you to share the links. They are really useful. Having Second language learners, teaching vocabulary building is really important.
Surely, I will make use of them in the future.
Regards
Shavila