Vocabulary Theatre: A Peer-teaching Approach for Academic Vocabulary Acquisition

Words as Tools: Learning Academic Vocabulary as Language Acquisition

ness Academic language is also typically more abstract than everyday conversation. A math text, for example, might contain abstract nouns such as length, width, circumference, addition, and subtraction. A biology text might contain abstract nouns for processes, such as respiration or mitosis. Putting These Together What we want to stress here is that these six facts about academic language are ...

Semantic Boggle: A Game for Vocabulary Acquisition

Learning a new language is a difficult endeavor, the main encountered problem being vocabulary acquisition. The learning process can be improved through visual representations of coherent contexts, best represented in serious games. The game described in this paper, Semantic Boggle, is a serious game that exercises vocabulary. It is based on the traditional word-guessing game, but it brings edu...

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...

Comparing Teacher-, Peer-, and Self-Assessment for Vocabulary Learning

The present study was an attempt to investigate the comparative effect of teacher-, peer-, andself-assessment on EFL learners’ vocabulary achievement. Accordingly, 90 female Englishlanguage learners selected out of an initial 140 intermediate EFL learners based on theirperformance on a sample piloted PET took part in the study. All three groups were taught bythe same teacher using the same cour...