302 Phrasal verbs pop up everywhere and are difficult to get a handle on. This demonstration shows teachers how to facilitate acquisition and natural usage of phrasal verbs through interactive techniques focused on the preposition or adverb of the phrase. The authors demonstrate lessons and communicative activities to match a variety of learning and teaching styles. This research investigates the strategies language learners of English use to encounter unfamiliar vocabulary. After a presentation of the findings, the audience looks at strategies that can be used as supplemental aids to texts that do not focus on vocabulary guessing techniques.
Participants learn how to create jazz chants and other activities to fit their own curricula.
Participants have an opportunity to thoroughly understand the underlying principles of the Kaplan Lexical approach through a hands-on demonstration of collecting chunks and collocations. When learning new vocabulary, even in context, the way that lexical items combine, or co-occur, remains a problem when students move from receptive to productive language. The presenter makes the case for the explicit teaching of collocations and suggest ways to accomplish this in the IEP classroom. A Dorling Kindersley representative who teaches ESL in middle school presents a new CD-Rom loved by kids, parents, and teachers alike. Participants explore ways to incorporate this tool into a curriculum.