Please join us for the first of a series of Conversations (formerly known as the Brown Bag Lunch Series) on Reading, Writing, and Research.
Vocabulary Acquisition:
How I Teach My Students the Meanings of New Words
Professor Sharman Yoffie, LIU Writing Program ESL Coordinator
Thursday, November 4, 2010
1:30 -2:30 p.m.
Spector Lounge
Humanities Building, 4th Floor
"What does __________ mean?"
"Well, that depends."
"On what?"
Why does new vocabulary matter so much when college students read challenging texts? Can we assume that our students know what certain words mean, words that seem obvious to us as instructors? How can we find out if students comprehend words or not? What should our approach be when they don’t know or misinterpret the meaning of a word?
Kindly RSVP to Deborah Mutnick at deborah.mutnick@liu.edu.
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