Special lecture on teaching vocabulary by Prof. Paul Nation

Prof. Paul Nation from the University of Victoria in New Zealand will be giving a special lecture on teaching vocabulary. The topics are:

What are the ten most effective vocabulary activities?
This talk presents ten proven and very useful activities for helping learners increase their vocabulary knowledge. In addition, reasons are given why these techniques were chosen to be in the top ten. These reasons relate to the four most important jobs of the vocabulary teacher.
1 Plan and provide a well-balanced course
2 Train the learners in the four most useful vocabulary strategies
3 Test the learners
4 Teach vocabulary

The best vocabulary teaching activities
1 are most certain to result in useful learning
2 do not require a lot of work from the teacher
3 provide balance in a well-designed program
4 are simple and efficient
5 can be used over and over again.

The lecture will be held on Thursday 28 April from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Language Institute Building at Tha Prachan.