THE VOCABULARY LISTS DILEMMA

30Aug 202030 Aug 2020

Hola my dear friends and colleagues. Today in my weekly “backwards cap” video I talk about the infamous topic of Vocabulary Lists!

Do we really need them? Is this the only way our students will learn the target language? I invite you to watch this short video and find out how I manage this common situation in my instruction.

As always know that I welcome your questions and kind comments. Please share with other colleagues if you happen to find this post helpful to World Language teachers. Gracias.

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9 Comments

Rebecca Dominguez says:

30 Aug 2020 at 9:19 pm

Muy interesante, gracias 😊

Rebecca Dominguez Spanish Teacher, Santa Teresa High School https://sths.schoolloop.com/

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1. Sr. Ojeda says:
  
  31 Aug 2020 at 8:00 am
  
  Gracias a ti por comentar Rebecca.
  
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Lynda Pilgreen says:

30 Aug 2020 at 10:14 pm

This is a great idea! Do you think it’s reasonable for the very first days/weeks of Spanish 1? I feel like they need to have some sort of structure. “Technology” is usually an upper level topic. 150 words would be impossible. What do you think? I laughed at “Learning the same words.” 🙂 I can just imagine all of my students walking around saying the same thing – j ajajaja!

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1. Sr. Ojeda says:
  
  31 Aug 2020 at 8:00 am
  
  I believe that for first day or week of Spanish 1 you need a more comprehensible approach . Allowing them to hear your Comprehensible Spanish, getting used to the sounds of the language .
  
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Stephanie Namlick says:

31 Aug 2020 at 12:38 am

Este es un concepto útil para todos de nosotros como profesores. Los estudiantes tienen que pensar/incorporar las estructuras que sirvan para sus ideas y sus propias conversaciones. The more experience I have teaching, the more I agree that a specific vocabulary list to memorize does not make sense for fluency.

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1. Sr. Ojeda says:
  
  31 Aug 2020 at 7:58 am
  
  We are on the same page here. The more I teach the more I realize how complicated I have made things in the previous years .
  
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Melissa says:

31 Aug 2020 at 7:31 am

Hola Diego, Gracias por tu vídeo sobre listas de vocabulario y toda la información que compartes con nosotros, los profes. Claro que no que no queremos agobiarlos con tantas palabras a la vez. En nivel 2 tengo que usar el libro “Descubre”, por lo menos como guía. Además de “escoger 25 palabras de la lista en el texto y hablarme sobre tu uso de tecnología” por ejemplo, ¿cuáles son otras actividades que haces con la “lista” de palabras que los chicos han escogido? Otra vez, mil gracias y saludos desde PA, Melissa D.

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1. Sr. Ojeda says:
  
  31 Aug 2020 at 7:57 am
  
  Simplemente creamos actividades u oportunidades para que se pongan en contexto estas palabras y que cada estudiante pueda usarlas para expresar su realidad.
  
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2. Sr. Ojeda says:
  
  2 Sep 2020 at 8:40 am
  
  Ponerlas en contextos reales . Cartas, skits, juegos, artículos . Darles la opción de usar mucho las mismas palabras, no poco muchas palabras 🙂
  
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