Wednesday, 3 October 2012

1) From the demonstration of the example text and changable coloring of the words and the explanation of how can vocabulary profling could be use effectively in teaching language department provided a light in my understanding. As the video stated we can focus on green and yellow/orange highlighted words to start with teaching as the reason the video stated uncommon words are favored by the teachers more than more frequent words or rare types. I could as a teacher before bringing a reading material to my students check for the types of the words, whether they are common or rare, I could make an assumption about my observations of students' capacity from inclass discussions then I would choose the specific uncommon or common words that I would want them to add to their developing vocabulary skill.

3)The main difference between a word cloud and  vocabulary profiler, in my point of view, is word cloud concentrates on only showing keywords of reading material to encourage students' meaningful learning through seeing a few significant words on the other hand vocabulary profile has a wider usage for mainly teachers, it lets teachers to plan a vocabulary oriented lesson and in a way provides an aidance in choosing which words students should add to their knowledge in that lesson.I would use a word cloud when an instructor of mine assigns me a research paper reading and initially I would look at the keywords the author of the research paper emphasized more, it can gvie me a starting thought about the research paper..I would use vocabulary profiler when I become a teacher to aid myself in planning a thoughtful choice of words to teach my students

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