Idea from: TESL-L member: James Trotta
Visiting Professor at Catholic University of Korea
I recently did a lesson in which I asked my students to list everything they knew about to words (obtain, obsession) that had recently come up in class. I let them use their electronic dictionaries.
We pooled the knowledge and I wrote it on the board. I asked if students knew the words well enough to use them. The answer was no.
I said that we were going to find out what needs to be known in order to "know" a word. I gave them entries from Cambridge learners dictionary and Oxford Collocations and had them add to their list of things they knew about the words. Now (hopefully) they have a better understanding of what it means to know a word.
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