Teaching vocabulary (lexis) is one of the most important skills for an English teacher to master. Without new vocabulary, new language students will not improve and grow in their English skills.

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What should English teachers (ESL teachers) consider when teaching vocabulary? How many words to teach your ESL students? What specific words do you teach?
All of these questions are answered in this first video in my How to Teach Vocabulary video series.
My name is Chris Westergaard and I'm the director of The Language House TEFL in Prague - https://www.thelanguagehouse.net

I train new English teachers every single month on our 4-week TEFL certification course in Prague.
The main concepts we cover in this vocab video are:
Focus on usage
How many words to teach = 10-15 words per lesson
Appropriateness of your words
Passive vs Active vocab
Denotation vs Connotation
Parts of speech and morphology
Collocations

Check out video #2 in the series. It's all about eliciting and teaching language without using translation -    • How to Teach Vocabulary Like a Pro - ...  

Thanks for watching and please leave a comment with your thoughts!

Timestamp
00:00 intro
01:06 4 systems
01:49 focus on usage
02:34 active vs passive
03:43: appropriateness
05:33 denotation connotation
07:41 parts of speech
08:06 morphology
08:87 collocations
09:44 the main goal