Teaching writing and vocabulary to young learners

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Teaching writing and vocabulary to young learners Manuel Alejandro Moreno de León Teaching children a second language Unit 4

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Teaching writing and vocabulary to young learners

Manuel Alejandro Moreno de LeónTeaching children a second language

Unit 4

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Is a process with refers to the act of gathering ideas and working with them until they are presented in a manner that is comprehensible to readers.

When we are teaching writing to young learners we must consider two separate areas:

• Physical skills• Cognitive skills

What is writing?

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Process writing helps native English-speaking children as well as EFL or ESL young learners develop English-language writing skills.

The process writing approach involves the process steps necessary to produce a good quality final piece of writing.

Steps1. Prewrite2. Write3. Revise4. Edit5. Publish

The development of writing skills

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Prewrite: Children are prepared to write and collect thoughts or ideas and thinking about what is going to be written.

Write: Children get their ideas and write down on a paper.

Revise: The initial piece of writing is examined and reworked so their ideas are logical and flow.

Edit: Learners work to make sure that they are not any content errors, grammatical or spelling errors.

Publish: Put the writing in a final finished format.

Writing process

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Several techniques and activities for implementing different aspects of the process writing of the children are the next ones:

1. Writing models2. Group writing

3. Talking and writing box4. Writing centers

5. Writing conferences6. Inventive spelling

7. Word walls

Classroom techniques and activities

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Classroom techniques and activities

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What is vocabulary?

• Language consists in words, so vocabulary is the collection of words.

• Children learn vocabulary items related to the different Concepts they are learning.

• As a teacher, it is important to use verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions, and also you will want to use some different lexical fields as colors, days of the week, actions verbs etc.

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It is important to use formal and informal vocabulary instruction that engages students cognitive skills and gives opportunities to learners to use new vocabulary.

Learners need to acquire vocabulary learning strategies in order to discover he meaning of new words.

For example use a method like TPR to include vocabulary items in the listening activity.

Background

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Some principles for help children of EFL, OR ESL, in order to know new vocabulary are the next ones:

Direct instruction and indirect instruction Teach vocabulary words before a new activity Teach how to use the context Give opportunities for deep processing Help students se dictionary Have students keep vocabulary notebook

Principles for teaching vocabulary

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Direct instruction refers to teaching the words and their meaning.

Indirect instruction refers to helping children learn appropriate strategies so they figure out the meaning by themselves.

Pre-teaching

Principles fo teaching vocabulary

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Students can benefit from learning how to use context clues and guessing the meaning of the word, so this help them to use unfamiliar concepts.

Deep processing means working with the information at a high cognitive or personal level.

Deep processing is a very important component of vocabulary acquisition and development.

Principles for teaching vocabulary

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Some activities that can be used in order that children develop and expand their vocabulary are the next ones:

1. Word for a day2. Categories

3. Scavenger hunt4. What´s missing?

5. Mystery words6. Concentration

7. Vocabulary basket

Classroom techniques and activities

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Classroom activities