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Download full textAl-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Teaching and learning of technical terms constitute a major problem for ESP instructors and students. To help the students learn, retain, apply and relate technical terms, a multiple-associations instructional approach that focuses on connecting the printed form of the technical term with its pronunciation (the hidden sounds, double and silent…
Descriptors: English for Special Purposes, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Direct linkGlazer, Susan Mandel – Teaching Pre K-8, 2005
In the past, some teachers treated word learning as an isolated subject--a list of words that were not connected to content or literature studies. This article describes how Candy Mulligan, a teacher at the Center for Reading and Writing at Rider University in Lawrenceville, NJ, teaches vocabulary by selecting words from the students' seventh and…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Vocabulary Development, Learning Activities, Metacognition
Williams, Ray – ESP Journal, 1985
Justifies the teaching of vocabulary recognition strategies from vocabulary development exercises and reviews five such strategies. These strategies are: (1) inferring from context, (2) identifying lexical familiarization, (3) unchaining nominal compounds, (4) synonym search, and (5) word analysis. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Context Clues, English for Special Purposes, Language Processing
Murphy, Joseph A. – 1983
Techniques for teaching collocation and word-association recognition as applied to the English as a second language class are suggested. Collocations are defined as phrases made of words which usually occur together, like "for the time being." Collocations and word associations are treated as synonymous. It is suggested that some words ought to be…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, English (Second Language), Idioms, Instructional Materials
Polette, Nancy – Teacher Ideas Press, 2007
Many of the most talented authors and artists of the past and present have shared their thoughts and their gifts with young children through picture books. Many picture books allow young children to explore important ideas and to stretch their minds far beyond rote memorization. Young children absorb knowledge at a very rapid pace. In an age of…
Descriptors: Classification, Vocabulary Development, Associative Learning, Reading Skills
Koch, Norman E. – 1986
Stressing language development as the prime component of all learning, this resource book presents suggestions to teachers to aid them in developing children's descriptive language. Basic to the described activities is the concept that vocabulary development is essentially concept development, requires a variety of experiences, and results from…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Choral Speaking, Classroom Techniques, Creative Development
