As children, many of us remember the teaching strategies our instructors used for vocabulary: We’d copy down definitions into our notebooks, and then for homework we would have to rewrite each word for what seemed like a million times.
We can probably all agree that passive learning is not an effective teaching strategy to instruct vocabulary. Studies are now showing that students need multiple exposures to a word before they can fully understand it. They also need to learn new words in context, by reading. Teachers can emphasize active processing by having students connect new meanings to words they already have knowledge of. The more exposures students have to a word, the better chance that they will remember it.
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