Annual Workshop 2001

STETS Public Lecture and Workshop
conducted by Paul Nation

28 November 2001 - 1 December 2001

Highlights

Paul Nation’s workshop proved to be exactly the useful and thought-provoking event anticipated by those workshop participants who had had the pleasure of attending his presentations previously.

Like all good workshops, it was a judicious mixture of useful theory, good teaching ideas and starting points for interesting future research.

The individual sessions covered:

	Vocabulary frequency and teaching approaches
	Diagnosing learners’ vocabulary level
	Analyzing vocabulary activities
	Learning vocabulary through communicative tasks
	Specialized vocabulary
	Reading and vocabulary development
	Direct vocabulary learning strategies
	Guessing from context
	Collocation
	Vocabulary testing

Vocabulary was an area which was arguably neglected in foreign language teaching for a number of years, but it now seems very much back on the agenda, and Paul gave all the participants a great deal to think about. What he said would, perhaps, be particularly thought-provoking for anyone who included among his or her basic tenets use of the maximum amount of authentic language (even for those at the early stages of language learning), or an entirely inductive approach to vocabulary learning.

What follows covers only a few of the many interesting points which were made. (Anyone wanting a fuller coverage of his views will need to go to the two books Paul has recently produced, published respectively by CUP and RELC.)

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Photo Gallery

Photographs from the workshop:

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Thanks

STETS and the Special Projects Committee would like to thank the following persons:

Dr Wong Lian Aik (Director, Centre for English Language Communication/NUS) for his kind support of the event as well as the use of CELC facilities and equipment.

Manee Lugg (STETS President) for her great interest and involvement in this project.

Judith Lindley for providing the workshop participants with information on certain aspects of logistics.

Lee Kooi Cheng for her great help with the STETS accounts.

Special Projects Committee Members

The Special Projects Committee consists of

Richard Slessor	(Chairperson)
Lim Hwee Ling	(Secretary)
Aileen Bong	(Registration Officer/Treasurer)
Nimmi A. Jayathurai	(Logistics Officer)
Phyllis Wachob	(Logistics Officer)
Zhang Lawrence	(Logistics Officer)

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