The Vocabulary Blogging Challenge

I’ve been meaning to start a series of posts on the topic of vocabulary learning for some time now and well, you know how it is with those busy weeks sometimes.  Then I read Karenne Sylvester’s post “Complicated Vocabulary? Make Cartoons” shortly followed by Vicky Loras’ entry “Word of the Week”.  I think now is a good time to put this post up and get things going.

I would like to gather, for the greater good, a series of posts concerned with learning, and teaching vocabulary.  Consider some of the following factors:

  • Are you a language learner? If so, do you use any techniques  to notice and remember new vocabulary?
  • As teachers, how can we best advise students on this important area of language learning and encourage greater learner autonomy and vocabulary retention?
  • Have you had particular success with any memory techniques in the classroom and how did you use them?
  • Should this be an area we encourage our students to experiment with in the classroom and if so, how?

You could blog your thoughts and link back here so all contributions are in one place.  If you don’t have a blog, but would like to contribute, do feel free to contact me via the comments section below and I can post your entry here as a guest post on my blog.

Happy blogging my friends and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts, advice and experiences!

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16 Responses to “The Vocabulary Blogging Challenge”

    
  1. Leahn
    December 8, 2010 at 09:01

    Hi Emma,

    i posted something about recycling vocabulary with YLs over at my blog. Have linked back to your post cause didn’t know if this was what you’re after! Have a read.

    Thanks for the inspiration

    Leahn

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  2. Kathy Perret
    December 20, 2010 at 23:16

    I recently posted a blog entitled “A Vocabulary Journey…”

    Thanks for the great challenge!

    Kathy

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  3. DANIELA TOMATIS
    January 2, 2011 at 14:50

    Hi Emma,

    I liked your idea of the Vocabulary Challenge. I’m vocabulary obsessed and so I thought about sharing some ideas. :)

    http://themachinegoeson.blogspot.com/2010/12/vocabulary-challenge.html

    Thank you.

    Daniela

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  5. Daniela Tomatis
    February 1, 2011 at 20:59

    Hi Emma,

    thank you for your reply. I’m glad you’ve found the post “5 ways to store vocabulary” worth reading :) . As for the template, I did the wheels using a program called Corel Draw..maybe I should try with a more widely used program and make the wheels downloadable. I’m on Twitter and my username is danielatomatis.
    Thank you again.

    Daniela ( that’s my name, …anyway, I like Naomi as well ;) )

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