Vocabulary with Vroom!
Seminars on Language and Intercultural Teaching
April 18, 2008
The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think and the more ideas you will invite into your mind. ~ Wilfred Funk
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Content
Introduction
- Your favorite English words
- The 12 Most Powerful Words in English
- A brief history of the English language (see these materials from the British Library for an overview
- Some statistics about language, vocabulary, and English
- The world's most widely spoken languages with statistics from Ethnologue
- Top languages on the Internet from Internet world stats (marketing group)
- Words in the English language from the Global Language Monitor
- Vocabulary acquisition from Virginia Tech
- Globish from Wikipedia
Some introductory notes about academic vocabulary building from UEfAP
Vocabulary learning stations
- Types of academic vocabulary
- Dictionary use and work
- Word parts
- Unknown words
- Building a better vocabulary
Vocabulary resources
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