How To Teach Vocabulary Like a Pro - Part 1: Your Approach

Teaching vocabulary (lexis) is one of the most important skills for an English teacher to master. Without new vocabulary, new language students will not improve and grow in their English skills. What should English teachers (ESL teachers) consider when teaching vocabulary? How many words to teach your ESL students? What specific words do you teach? All of these questions are answered in this first video in my How to Teach Vocabulary video series. My name is Chris Westergaard and I’m the director of The Language House TEFL in Prague - I train new English teachers every single month on our 4-week TEFL certification course in Prague. The main concepts we cover in this vocab video are: Focus on usage How many words to teach = 10-15 words per lesson Appropriateness of your words Passive vs Active vocab Denotation vs Connotation Parts of speech and morphology Collocations Check out video #2 in the series. It’s all about eliciting and teaching language without using translation - Thanks for watching and please leave a comment with your thoughts! Timestamp 00:00 intro 01:06 4 systems 01:49 focus on usage 02:34 active vs passive 03:43: appropriateness 05:33 denotation connotation 07:41 parts of speech 08:06 morphology 08:87 collocations 09:44 the main goal