Purdue University Teaching Citation for Textbook and Vocabulary Exercise Questions

This assignment focuses on content area words. ESL students (and many native speakers) tend to have particular difficulty with them.

This assignment has 3 parts:

Part 1:

• Choose a textbook. This can be any textbook, it doesn’t have to be for your current or future students.
• Give a citation for the textbook and page numbers used for this assignment. (If you need assistance with citing references in APA format, here’s a link: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_formatting_and_style_guide/general_format.html (Links to an external site.)
• Check your citation – sometimes students give me just the title of the text, or the title and author. I’m looking for an actual APA style citation that includes page numbers.
• Select at least 6 words that are content specific to the chapter. List them and define them (because I might need the background info 🙂

Part 2:

Think about teaching these words to students, and answer these 5 questions in at least a couple sentences for each one:

(pages 258-263 may be helpful to review and refer to as you answer these, particularly p. 259)

1. How will you relate the “new” to the known?
2. How will you offer repetitions of the new words in meaningful contexts?
3. How will you provide opportunities for deeper processing of word meaning of this set of words?
4. How will you engage students in using these newly learned words?
5. What strategies will you offer students to use independently and understand new word sets such as these in the future? (2-3 ideas) (Note – so not further work on the set of words you were taking about in 1-4, but new sets they will encounter in the future)

Part 3:

Discuss how this vocabulary exercise and the activities above (#1-5) apply to English learners. Is their experience the same as native speakers? Why or why not? Would you do the same things for both groups? Why or why not? (minimum 4 sentences)