Current Trends in Teaching Vocabulary

Speaker: Paul Nation (Victoria University, New Zealand)

Date: Saturday, October 25th, 2003

Time: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Location: Tokyo

Venue: Temple University Japan, Tokyo Center, 2-8-12 Minami Azabu; Minato-ku, Tokyo

Description: The seminar will look at the teaching and learning of vocabulary including recent research on technical vocabulary and idioms. The focus will be on how teachers can develop a well-balanced vocabulary program and the principles that should lie behind such a program. Special attention will be given to the teaching of vocabulary strategies and vocabulary learning through speaking and reading. Seminar topics will include

learning vocabulary through communicative tasks,
reading and vocabulary development,
vocabulary frequency and teaching approaches,
diagnosing learners’ vocabulary levels,
planning a vocabulary course (the four strands),
vocabulary for special purposes,
using words cards, and
guessing from contexts.

Text: I.S.P. Nation, Learning Vocabulary in Another Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
This seminar is part of TUJ's Distinguished Lecturer Series. Note that each seminar is actually 2 days long, apx. 7 hours per day. The first three hours of each seminar are free and open to the public. To attend both days of the weekend seminar costs 10,500 yen for the general public (free for M.Ed. and Ed.D. alumni of Temple University Japan). Please see the TUJ Tokyo web site for full details.

Cost for TUJ members: free for M.Ed. and Ed.D. alumni of Temple University Japan

Cost for TUJ non-members: free (first three hours)

Organization: Temple University Japan

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