I read an interesting article contrasting how students learn vocabulary. In yesteryear, the flash cards dominated for learning vocabulary. Today, online flash games if not facebook or Iphone apps, dominate for teaching vocabulary. Yet I’m pretty sure that vocabulary flash cards, old paper cards, are not about to fall into total disuse. What do you think?
And I quote: Vocabulary flash cards are the traditional method for learning vocabulary. But today, interactive online vocabulary games are often used instead of flash cards to improve vocabulary for SAT, ACT, GRE and FCAT tests.
The interactive vocabulary games are enhanced flash cards for vocabulary. They teach and drill on vocabulary like flash cards but in an engaging, entertaining format. Being more fun than vocabulary flash cards means the online interactive vocab games are more effective at engaging and teaching than vocabulary flash cards. English speakers and English learners alike build word power with interactive vocabulary games.
An interested alert vocabulary learner is a fast vocabulary learner. Any vocabulary student will agree. Any teacher of English–or any other subject–can attest to this, and educational research confirms it: Vocabulary SAT, ACT, and GRE scores (marks) reflect this.
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The Vocabulary Learning Fun website has some more interesting learning articles about vocabulary:
Expand Your Vocabulary
GRE Verbal Tips
Improve Through Active Learning
Analogy Vocabulary
PSAT Vocabulary
Synonym Vocabulary
Connotative and Denotative Vocabulary
ESL Vocabulary
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August 13, 2009 at 12:00 am |
Dear Sir
I wondered if you might like a link to both my Foreign word site and my English word website or press release details of my ensuing book with Penguin Press on amusing and interesting English vocabulary?
http://www.thewonderofwhiffling.com
with best wishes
Adam Jacot de Boinod
(author of The Meaning of Tingo)
(www.themeaningoftingo.com)
adamjacot@fastmail.co.uk
or wish to include:
1) THE MEANING OF TINGO
When photographers attempt to bring out our smiling faces by asking us
to “Say Cheese”, many countries appear to follow suit with English
equivalents. In Spanish however they say patata (potato), in Argentinian Spanish whisky, in French steak frites, in Serbia ptica (bird) and in
Danish appelsin (orange). Do you know of any other varieties from around the world’s languages? See more on http://www.themeaningoftingo.com
2) THE WONDER OF WHIFFLING
The Wonder of Whiffling is a tour of English around the globe (with fine
coinages from our English-speaking cousins across the pond, Down Under
and elsewhere).
Discover all sorts of words you’ve always wished existed but never knew,
such as fornale, to spend one’s money before it has been earned; cagg, a solemn vow or resolution not to get drunk for a certain time; and
petrichor, the pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a
dry spell.
Delving passionately into the English language, I also discover why it
is you wouldn’t want to have dinner with a vice admiral of the narrow
seas, why Jacobites toasted the little gentleman in black velvet, and
why a Nottingham Goodnight is better than one from anywhere else. See
more on http://www.thewonderofwhiffling.com
with best wishes
Adam