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The Shakespeare in All of Us: A Monumental, Multitudinous, Premeditated Approach to Vocabulary Instruction
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Savino, Jennifer Ann – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 2011
Shakespeare, who worked actively with words through punning, playing, and inventing, serves as the model for students to experience a deepening knowledge of vocabulary and love of words. Through instructional activities aimed at increasing word play, word exposure, and word consciousness, students gain the verbal capacity needed to understand…
Descriptors: English Literature, Vocabulary Development, Vocabulary Skills, Reading Comprehension
Vocabulary Learning with the Verbal-Visual Word Association Strategy in a Native American Community.
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Hopkins, Gary; Bean, Thomas W. – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1999
Describes classroom action research with the verbal-visual word association strategy. Explores the strategy with a group of junior high and high school students on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in southeastern Montana. Shares interpretative impressions and results of a vocabulary quiz given to the high school group. (RS)
Descriptors: Action Research, American Indian Education, Class Activities, Instructional Effectiveness
Yes, Talking!: Organizing the Classroom to Promote Second Language Acquisition.
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Enright, D. Scott; McCloskey, Mary Lou – TESOL Quarterly, 1985
Summarizes the central assumptions of the communicative language teaching model and the potential difficulties that regular classroom teachers may face in implementing it. Seven criteria for use in organizing communicative classrooms are presented, and applications of these criteria to decisions about organizing classroom interaction and the…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Class Organization, Classroom Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)