EdTech: VocAPPulary Land: A 1-Hour Tour

These EdTech events are for language teachers who want to know more about EdTech and look for different ways to implement new ideas in their teaching. 

Abstract: 

This is a boots-on-the-ground session to introduce accessible tools for 1) assessing and aligning student vocabulary competence, teaching materials, and course standards, 2) extracting and managing target vocabulary, encouraging self-access, and 3) output and assessment.

Let’s take a short hike through tools provided by Paul Nation, LexTutor, Voyant Tools, and Kristofer Kyle, and Laurence Anthony, with some examples on how to manage vocabulary resources in Excel/Google Sheets, and self-access resources such as Quizlet (with audio!!!), NGSL Builder, Adam Jenkin’s NGSL resources for Moodle…right down to affix monster battles on Padlet.

Bio:

I’m a New Zealander fascinated with attention, emotion, and memory in communication. I also practiced and researched kyogen drama, so I’m interested in humor and in the amazing synergy of verbal/visual communication. My past life as a university Japanese teacher in resource-poor pre-internet days alerted me to the need for relevant, specific vocabulary resources, and nearly 20 years working as a translator and interpreter taught me how valuable lexical competence is.