DISCUSSION POINTS from http://cte319.pbworks.com/activity+-+intro+to+vocabulary+profiling
- How can knowing the most commonly used words help in teaching English?
- Is it necessary to teach the common words–they are common, so won’t students just learn them naturally?
- Should we explicitly focus on learning vocabulary? How effective is decontentextualized teaching of vocabulary?
- To what extent are word lists useful in learning vocabulary? Aren’t dictionaries good enough?