Strategies for Learning Vocabulary

Welcome

Welcome to Strategies for Learning Vocabulary, a micro-class brought to you by The Language Institute at Columbus State Community College.

Today we will learn:

• a little about how and why to study vocabulary;
• a few strategies strategies means things that you can do to help reach a goal. we can use to learn vocabulary;
• some tools we can use to help us learn vocabulary.

Chris Spackman ...

• is a USA American;
• lived in Japan for many years;
• speaks English and Japanese; English is my native language. Japanese is my additional language.
• is a k-12 ESOL teacher in Columbus since 2010;
• teaches Basic English at CSCC on weekends since 2016.

1. First, we will introduce ourselves. We will also do tech checks, so everyone can participate.
2. After that, we will see how many words we know in English.Please do NOT worry if you do not know a lot of the words. This test is NOT easy. No one knows all of the words! Please go to TestYourVocab.com. We will start as soon as everyone is ready.
3. Next, we will talk about the lecture notes.
4. Penultimately, Penultimate means next to last or second to last (they mean the same thing). It is a great word to know, because many native speakers do not know it! we will look at Quizlet, a great online vocabulary learning resource.
5. Finally, we will look at Anki, a powerful app and online tool for learning vocabulary. If we don't have time, we may not do this. There is information about it in the note slides, however.