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Enhancing Students’ Technical or Specialized Vocabulary through “Memrise” Presented By: Dian Fadhilawati,M.Pd. (ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF BALITAR) CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING 22-23 FEBRUARY 2014 PHNOM PHEN CAMBODIA 10 th Annual

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Enhancing Students’ Technical or Specialized

Vocabulary through “Memrise”

Presented By:

Dian Fadhilawati,M.Pd.(ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY OF

BALITAR)

CONFERENCE ON ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHING22-23 FEBRUARY 2014 PHNOM PHEN CAMBODIA

10th

Annual

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VOCABULARY TEARSVOCABULARY TEARS

Mule, breeding, breeder, cultivarLabrador, hybrid, Taxon

Harvest, crop, plant,

Farmer, go, farm,

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Low frequencyLow frequency

TechnicalTechnical

GeneralGeneral

Vocabulary (Nation:2001)

Vocabulary (Nation:2001)

AcademicAcademic

11

22

33

44

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General Vocabulary

General Vocabulary

the 2000 most frequent words of English

• provide 80% coverage of most texts

arrive, discuss, follower, impossible,

leader, message, repeat, story

attribute, category, environment, function,

internal, monitor, perspective, widespread

a list of 570 frequently occurring words in academic texts

provides approximately 8-12% coverage of academic texts

Academic Vocabulary

1

2

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words that occur with very high or moderate frequency level within a limited range of texts

provides 5% coverage of most texts

words that occur with very high or moderate frequency level within a limited range of texts

provides 5% coverage of most textsaudit, capital, distribution, metrics, principal agent, shareholder, supply

Technical Vocabulary

Low Frequency Vocabularywords at the 2,000 - 20,000 frequency level

and beyondprovides 5% coverage of most texts

abject, credentials, genealogy,geomorphic, incarcerate, palpitate,

rupture

4

3

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Bolded Bolded

Technical /specialized Vocabulary

Technical /specialized Vocabulary

Specific Field

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How to Teach Vocabulary

How to Teach Vocabulary

Adapted from Building Academic Vocabulary by Robert Marzano and Debra Pickering, 2005

Step 4: Engage students periodically in activities that help them add to their knowledge of the terms in their notebooks.

Step 5: Periodically ask students to discuss the terms with one another.Step 6: Involve students periodically in games that allow them to play with terms.

Step 1: Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term.

Step 2: Ask students to restate the description, explanation, or example in their own words.

Step 3: Ask students to construct a picture, symbol, or graphic representing the term or phrase

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PRE ACTIONPRE ACTION

STUDENTS

Mean Score OF Vocabulary test: 62.28 les than the criterion of succes 75.00

Unmotivated

Passive

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2010

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sciencescience

SCIENCE

FUNFUN

COMMUNITY

MEMRISEMEMRISE

community

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Level 1Agriculture/Farmer/farm/Breeding/irrigation/Climate/

Air/soil/Mineral/Pesticide/Fertile/Fertilizer/Rice

Vocabulary of Agriculture and Farming

Vocabulary of Agriculture and Farming

Plant Breading/Animal Breading/Selective Breading/Inbreeding/Breeder/Crossbreed/Hybrid/Mule/Maize/Extinction/Taxon/Species/Outcross/ Labradoodle/Cultivar

Polyculture/Monoculture/Multiple Cropping/Intercropping/Aquaponics/Suistanable Agriculture/Crop Rotation/Organic Agriculture/Permaculture/

Green Manure/Compost/Raw Material/Pastoral Farming

.

Level 2

Level 3

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WHO,WHEN,WHERE,HOWWHO,WHEN,WHERE,HOW

31 students of Agriculture and Farming in

the second semester (2012/2013)

METHODClassroom

Action Research

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e

Learn effectively Enjoy your mindPlay with others

Reminder timed Adaptive Testing

Lots more science

Earn points Compete with

friend

Designed for funTaps inner genius

Why We Use Memrise

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Motivated to learn

Technical Vocabulary

Learning Motivation

Questionnaire ResultQuestionnaire Result

29(93%)

2(7%)

0 0 0

29(94%)

2(6%)

0 0 0

0 0 1(3%)

2(7%)

28

(90%)

0 0 0 2(7%)

29

(93%)

Learning Technical vocabulary using Memrise

ANAANAAAAA AA NANA

SNSNItems Number

make me Motivated to learn

More interesting

Difficult to learn

Boring and wasting

time

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Easy to learn

words and promote

self confidence

Learning Result

Questionnaire ResultQuestionnaire Result

27 4 0 0 0

28 3 0 0 0

28 2 1 0 0

29 2 0 0 0

Learning Technical vocabulary using Memrise

ANAANAAAAA AA NANA

SNSNQuestions

Adding Vocabulary

Learning vocabulary

easily

Meaningful vocabulary

learning

Having self confidence

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Accomplish the vocabulary

task

Task Accomplishment

Questionnaire ResultQuestionnaire Result

27(87%)

4(13%)

0 0 0

Learning Technical vocabulary using Memrise

ANAANAAAAA AA NANA

SNSNItems Number

Iam motivated to do my

vocabulary tasks after

learning vocabulary

with Memrise

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Promote social

relationship

SociallRelationship

Questionnaire ResultQuestionnaire Result

28(90%)

3(10%)

0 0 0

Learning Technical vocabulary using Memrise

ANAANAAAAA AA NANA

SNSN

Items Number

(9)

Learning vocabulary

through “memrise” increases friendship with my friends

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84.40

WORD LIST

60.28

STRATEGIESSTRATEGIES

MEAN SCOREMEAN SCORE

MEMRISE

BeforeBefore AfterAfter

THE STUDENTS VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT

THE STUDENTS VOCABULARY ACHIEVEMENT

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Reflecting

Implementing

Observing

M= 75…?

CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH PROCEDUREPROCEDURE

CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH CLASSROOM ACTION RESEARCH PROCEDUREPROCEDURE

Planning

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ReferencesReferences

Beck, I.L., McKeown, M.G. & Kucan, L. (2002). Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction. New

York: The Guilford Press.Chall, J.S. (1996). American reading achievement:

Should we worry? Research in the Teaching of English, 30, 303-310.

Graves, M.F., editor. Essential Readings on Vocabulary Instruction. International Reading Association 2009.

Marzano, R.J., & Pickering, D.L. (2005) Building Academic Vocabulary: Teacher's Manual. Alexandria,

VA: ASCD. "Common Core State Standards Initiative." National

Governor's Association Center for Best Practices, Council of Chief State School Officers, 2010. Web. 12 Jun

2012.

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1. Enhance the students’ Technical Vocabulary achievement

2.Alternative tool in teaching learning

CONCLUSIONCONCLUSION

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LOGOLOGO

Happy Presenting!

Dian Fadhilawati,[email protected]

(+6282230444437)