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Common words

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?