Journal international review #4

Teaching Young Learners English Vocabulary with
Reading-Based Exercises in a Real Classroom
Situation

Using five naturally occurring lessons for a group of Primary three pupils, this teacher-
initiated classroom study documented how reading-based lessons could be conducted to teach
young learners L2 vocabulary from meaning recognition to using the word in a sentence
context. To ensure pupils’ mastering of target items to a productive level, both receptive
and productive exercises are needed. Young learners at this stage have great difficulties in
learning and using verbs accurately. Such difficulties can be partially attributed to learners’
L1 influence (as in this study) and partially to the L2 verbs’ own complexity. Considering
young learners’ relatively lower cognitive capacity than that of adult learners, teachers should
teach verbs in chunks as well as create opportunities for young learners to meet the target
word in contexts different from the original context. Attention should be paid to variant
morphological forms of verbs and the context in which they should be used. Reading-based
vocabulary text exercises prove to be an effective way to help young learners learn vocabu-
lary, but the importance of more communicative oral activities/tasks in facilitating vocabulary
use should not be underestimated. Future studies should focus on how text-based exercises
and oral activities can be synergized to promote young learners’ L2 vocabulary learning.

Journal international review #3

Teaching Young Learners English Vocabulary with Reading-based Exercises in a Real Classroom Situation

Hello guys. today's topic is Method in the journal.

There are 3 methods in the journal

1.Participant

The participants in this study were young students, there were 14 men and 11 girls, aged 8 to 9. Most of these students will learn English in their first fun class,usually have half-hour to one hour of English language lessons every weekday

2.Instrument

here were two types of instruments in this research: four short reading texts with vocabulary exercises developed by the researchers as the instructional instrument (the in￾dependent variable) and a test adapted from the Vocabulary Knowledge Scale (VKS) as 

the testing instrument (the dependent variable). 

Journal international review #3

journal international review #2

Teaching Young Learners English Vocabulary with Reading-based Exercises in a Real Classroom Situation

Hello guys. today"s topic is literature review about the journal.

there are 3 points in the journal 

1. Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading

the author tells about Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading. 

reading is believed to be one of the most important resources

for acquiring vocabulary, and if there is a difficult vocabulary can consulting with a teacher or can search for difficult words using a dictionary.

Although reading roles

in second language vocabulary learning are widely accepted, there are some limitations

to this. First, guessing from the context of reading may not be accurate, it takes time

and cognitively demanding (Huckin and Coady, 1999).

2. Text-based Vocabulary Learning Exercises

While doing vocabulary exercises, learners' attention can be more directly attuned to the

form of target items. There are two types of text-based vocabulary exercises: one is fully

contextualized and the other semi-contextualized. The difference lies in the length of the

reading context on which the exercises are based.

3. Receptive vs. Productive Vocabulary Learning

It is generally agreed that the learning of receptive or productive knowledge can be

explained by the transfer-appropriate processing (TAP) theory that suggests that words

processed receptively result in better receptive knowledge and those processed productively

Mondria and Wiersma, 2004; Shintani, 2011) or lexical phrases/idioms (Steinel, Hulstijn

and Steinel, 2007) lend support to this view, i.e. receptive learning is more compatible

for receptive knowledge and productive learning more suitable for product knowledge.

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