TEACHING VOCABULARY BY USING REALIA (REAL-OBJECT) MEDIA

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

Multimodal English Vocabulary Teaching

With the wide use of digit, internet and multimedia, Multimodal foreign language teaching is becoming a brand-new teaching model. Recent years, there has been a great number of experts and scholars doing research on foreign language teaching using Multimodal theories. However, he application of Multimodal theories in English vocabulary teaching is very rare to see. Therefore, the author tries t...

Vocabulary Teaching in English Language Teaching

Vocabulary is one of the three essential components that constitute language knowledge, and vocabulary teaching is an essential part in English language teaching. In this paper, we discuss some vocabulary teaching strategies, so as to help the memorizing of vocabulary and enhance the efficiency of vocabulary teaching and learning.

Open-vocabulary Object Retrieval

In this paper, we address the problem of retrieving objects based on open-vocabulary natural language queries: Given a phrase describing a specific object, e.g., “the corn flakes box”, the task is to find the best match in a set of images containing candidate objects. When naming objects, humans tend to use natural language with rich semantics, including basic-level categories, fine-grained cat...

An Evaluation of Vocabulary Teaching

Vocabulary acquisition is one of the most challenging obstacles language learners must overcome. This is especially true for students wishing to study in overseas universities, where comprehension of academic texts is required. This dissertation evaluates the vocabulary teaching component of an intensive English teaching programme for students intending to enter universities in the U.S. It firs...