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| Title | Vocabulary Study Idea for Students |
| Body | Here is a suggestion from an FLTEACH user for a way students can study vocabulary: I call this study technique a word fan. Visualize a sheet of notebook paper, landscape format (wider than it is tall). On the right-hand edge, make a column about 2" wide. In that column write the list of English translations for the French words you want to learn to spell. Flip the page over. Exactly on the other side (a 2" column on the left side, now, au verso) write the French on top of its English prompt on the other side. They should line up so that if you held the paper up to the light the French and English would be written over each other to match. Fold the paper so the French is covered by the English-list "flap" and you can read the English words. To the right of the flap, try to write the French for each of the words in the column. Flip open the flap to expose the original French versions, which will now be side-by-side with what you just wrote. Check for spelling. Draw a line through misspelled words and study the correct spelling under the flap. Say the word, spell outloud, write it in the air, put it into a rhythmic chant, spell by syllables, whatever it takes. Refold the flap so that it covers what you just wrote and checked, and the English is next to blank paper again. Try again to write the French for each English word. Open and check against the answer key under the flap. Keep this up until you can write each target word 3 times correctly. At that point you can put a check by the English word on the list and focus on the ones you haven't got yet. When you have checked off all the English words, try writing the French again for all the English words on a clean sheet and see how well you have retained the ones you mastered first. Maybe even start at the bottom or the middle to challenge yourself a bit more. Young, M. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 20 Jun 2007). |
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