Songs in vocabulary learning
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By Dr Jeremy Koay
Using songs in language classrooms is not a new idea. They are generally used to practise listening and spelling skills. For example, words from a song are left out and students are expected to fill in the blanks while listening to the song. Ideally, students write the correct wor...
What is vocabulary?
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by Dr Jeremy Koay
A LIMITED VIEW
Vocabulary learning is fundamentally about knowing words. However, the idea of knowing a word is not always well understood. Some say that knowing a word means knowing what a word means. Others say that it means knowing the written form (e.g., spelling). These are ...