Vocabulary Development

through Reading from

Multiple SourcesKatie Subra, subr0054@umn.eduMinsk State Linguistic University

Background -> Common Ground

Level: Pre-Intermediate through Advanced

Objectives: Remember, Describe, Apply, Analyze, Evaluate, Create

Fields: English for (Multiple) Academic Purposes

Favorite Activity: Reading Literature & Doing a Comparative Analysis of the Characters

And you?...

New Discourse – New Motivation"Belay on?" – "On belay."

10 Curricular Principles – from Good Ideas for Teaching L2 ReadingGrabe, W. (2012)

Objectives & Guided ReadingEx: LiteratureQ: How could you adapt this to different fields?Q2: Which levels of thinking are being accessed? BT COURSE GOALS: The course will promote students’ abilities

to: 1. Increase a student’s English language proficiency. 2. Prepare him or her academically for American college

courses. 3. Expand abilities to read silently and aloud.4. Integrate multiple strategies for comprehending formal and

informal texts.5. Enhance a student’s vocabulary through the use of

contextual clues and practice.6. Develop strategies for reading for details and reading for the

main idea (skimming a text).7. Differentiate between factual and opinionated text.8. Analyze themes and make comparisons between multiple

texts. 9. Conduct research related to the topics of our assigned

memoir.10. Identify aspects of the assigned reading that are easy,

difficult, enjoyable, or dry and develop tactics for dealing with each type of reading.

Sample Activities – How do you do these things?KWPL (Know, Want to Know, Predict,

Learn) – Main idea comprehensionVocabulary developmentAwareness of discourse or styleBecoming a strategic readerReading fluencyMotivational Factors

College Intro '101' Textbooks

Newsprint – VOA, UK Telegraph, NY Times …

Current Research, Google Scholar, PEW Research, Corpora

Fiction and field related Bibliographies

WHAT & HOWRESOURCES PRACTICE

Task-Based Projects: Newsletters, Role play Presentations, Retell

KWPL, Guided Reading Worksheets & SSR

AWL, Vocabulary Logs

Bloom's Taxonomy

Motivation

Guided Reading with KWPL & BeyondReading Example, from Voice of America:

21/11/2013: "China's Proposed Economic Changes Get Fast Market Reaction"

Topic: Economy & Marketing (in China)

1. What do you know?

2. What do you want to learn?

3. What can you predict?

4. What did you learn?

*Mark key vocabulary that you would want to teach.

Academic Word Listshttp://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/information

The Academic Word List (AWL) was developed by Averil Coxhead as part of her M.A. Thesis. The list contains 570 word families which were selected according to principles. The list does not include words that are in the most frequent 2000 words of English. The AWL was primarily made so that it could be used by teachers as part of a programme preparing learners for tertiary level study or used by students working alone to learn the words most needed to study at tertiary institutions. The Academic Word List replaces the University Word List.

AWL Highlighters & Gapmakershttp://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/awlhighlighter.htm

Vocabulary LogsWatch Keith Folse's video about personalizing your learning log: www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8zacjvaYwcPurpose: "To train learners to acquire

vocabulary in a very specific way" Format: self-directed learning and

organizedIntroduction & Maintenance:

Provide learners with some examplesCheck that they are doing this (Give a

target number of entries, consider requiring some elements while allowing others to be self-selected)

Create applications for their logs (ie. Open journal assessments, writing tasks, extra-credit…)

Word, Sentence where you found it, Contextual Clues, Part of Speech, Other Forms of the Word, Dictionary Definition, Synonyms, Antonyms, Pictures, Translation,New Sentence, Roots/Prefixes/Suffixes, +/- Meaning

Sustained Silent Reading Logs look much the same:

Bloom's Taxonomy - BasicIn 1956, Benjamin Bloom proposed a taxonomy of student learning objectives. The taxonomy is a range of skills attained by students. The assessment techniques used to measure student success along this range of objectives can be formative or summative in nature.

Formative= Decision Making/Creative Application

Summative= Information Retention

Motivating Readers through Graphic Organizers

I. Fill in the chart with the following vocabulary words from the reading, using only context clues to place the words in the appropriate P.O.S. row. flurry gaze intermittently exhaustion surroundings

shushedsolemn resembled nudged convincedcurious allegiancegrasp steadiness hesitant tightenedII. Check the words in the dictionary to make sure you have the correct P.O.S.III. Write the definition of the word.IV. Make a new example sentence.V. Match each word with its synonym.

Motivating Readers with Graphic OrganizersSee: Latehomecomer Reading Worksheets

Graphic Organizers & Statistical DataPew Research Center

Motivating Readers through Debates

Motivating Readers through Graphic Organizers & DebatesThe House Believes in a National Minimum Wage

A minimum wage is the minimum price at which firms may hire workers, and conversely at which individuals can sell their labor. The government usually sets the minimum wage level at a point that will increase the wages of the lowest earners. New Zealand was the first country to set any kind of minimum wage law when it established arbitration boards in the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act of 1894. There is now some kind of minimum wage or collective bargaining legislation over the minimum wage in more than 90% of countries. There are however large differences in terms of the level of the minimum and how it is set.

Minimum Wage Debate Continuedthe minimum wage

aids in the propagation of social justice and the fair treatment of workers

the minimum wage provides a baseline minimum allowing people to embark freely in the pursuit of happiness

higher wages boost economic growth

the minimum wage encourages people to join the workforce rather than pursuing income through illegal channels

the minimum wage restricts an individual’s fundamental right to work

individuals gain a sense of dignity from employment, as well as develop human capital, that can be denied them by a minimum wage

the minimum wage is little more than a political tool that ultimately harms the overall economy by raising the unemployment rate and driving businesses elsewhere

the free market tends to treat workers fairly

Minimum Wage Debate Continued

Beyond KWPL – Written Text Analysis Form for Teachers & Advanced Readers

ContentCultureKWPLLanguage : Vocabulary &

Communicative Functions/Structures

Corpus Studies – Seeing vocabulary in use

"Economic reforms" 834 hits

Publication information: Mar/Apr 2012Title: Walmart wants you to believe its green makeover is changing the world. Just one hitch: ChinaAuthor: Kroll, AndySourceMother JonesExpanded context: Walmart briefly hinted at this problem: " Lack of complete transparency to production practices in China has hindered our ability to implement meaningful change at the factory level. " Li said these problems were systemic. " If the fraud in the auditing system isn't solved, " he told me, " Fm far from optimistic about Walmart's environmental programs. " Thirty years ago, Shenzhen was a drab fishing village on the South China Sea, a place so remote it didn't have a single traffic light. Then, as part of his economic reforms, Communist Party leader Deng Xiaopeng named Shenzhen the country's first " special economic zone, " with laissez-faire trade policies and favorable manufacturing laws put in place to lure foreign investment. Shenzhen's economy exploded, its GDP climbing from $31 million in 1979 to $107.8 billion in 2007.

Google Scholar English Archives

Additional ResourcesTheory/Lesson Planning Resources:•Academic Word List Information- http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist•AWL Activities from Oxford English Dictionary- http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/academic/•AWL Gap Maker tools- http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/alzsh3/acvocab/index.htm•Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition- http://www.carla.umn.edu/cobaltt/modules/curriculum/ta_form.html OR http://www.carla.umn.edu/•Corpora- http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/•Google Scholar English Resources- http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=top_venues•Folse, K. Video: Vocabulary log features – Michigan ELT, June 15, 2012 - www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8zacjvaYwcReading Resources:•NYTimes- http://international.nytimes.com/ OR http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/•Pew Research- http://www.pewresearch.org/•Telegraph- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/•Voice of America News- http://www.voanews.com OR http://learningenglish.voanews.com/Debate Resources:•Interactive online voting & Argument summaries- http://www.debate.org/•Debatabase (detailed arguments 4 Economy, Law, Education…)- http://www.debate.org/