Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Vocabulary

Here is a vocabulary objective for Stage 2 for listening:

• To learn vocabulary associated with:

  • Practical topics: situations you find yourself in where you need to understand what is going on in order to get basic goods and services
  • Personal interest topics: concrete topics about which you are particularly interested in being able to understand what people have to say
  • Concrete topics of interest to people in the community: topics people want to talk about

Here are some vocabulary strategies for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• Analysis

  Keep lists of different categories of vocabulary and look for relationships among them.

• Planning

  Plan your comprehension techniques to include the various categories of words listed in objectives.

• Practice

  Concentrate on the meanings of words when doing the activities.

• Inferencing

  Use familiarity with the topic or demonstrations to help you understand the meanings of words.

Here are some vocabulary techniques for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

• The Series technique
• The Picture Book Plus Recordings technique
• The Audio Archive technique
• The Familiar Stories technique
• The Shared Experiences technique
• The Dumb-Smart Question technique

Here is a vocabulary activity for Stage 2 guidelines for listening:

Listen for main ideas when people talk about concrete topics using some vocabulary you already know. You may begin to be able to fill in new words from the context.

• Generic module: Stage 2 guidelines for listening: Vocabulary
• In overview module: Stage 2: Listening modules
• In modular book: Guidelines for a Language and Culture Learning Program, by Carol J. Orwig
• In document collection: Other Resources
• In bookshelf: Language Learning

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library, Version 3.5, published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 1999. [Ordering information.]

Page content last modified: 8 December 1998

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