DIGESTING THE VOCABULARY

ECALLING THE QUESTION OF USING THE VOCABULARY SIZE TEST, IT IS PRETTY AWESOME. IN MY CLASS, MY STUDENTS LOVE IT! THOUGH THEY HAVE DIFFICULTY IN MOST OF THE PARTS, THEY ENJOY DOING IT, OF COURSE, AFTER THEY ARE TOLD ABOUT THE OBJECTIVES OF THE TEST.

     

o you know what objective did I tell them? I told them: having a test is the same with playing a game; we just repeating the same methodology that we already know but in a different platform. What is easy to guess when it comes to students? We know it well that they love to move, love playing, doing something "unimportant". What they think "unimportant" is actually just a lure that I design for them to be willingly involved in the learning process.

       

hen I asked them what their opinion would be if I gave them bilingual test, they said that would be a waste of time. So, based on the the response of 65% of total students, time allocation and arrangement at  school, and also government limitation, we conclude that a bilingual test won't be useful.

         

       

As for the sense of learning vocabulary itself, we can take a look at the picture on the left. Many wise people say that we can not put anything into a full bottle. As to people, we will not eat anything if we don't feel hungry or empty. First, we have to eat the food, chew it in our mouth, swallow it, sometimes we need water to moist our throat. Next, our digestion system will process it with the enzyme. After that our blood and O2 will carry useful nutrition and other things all over our body.

If we assume that the food here is vocabulary, chewing means observing (reading or listening or watching). Our mouth is like the eyes or ears or senses. Water is like the learning design which help them get the material or food. The digestion system is like the habit of the students in daily life. Having the food all over our body means that we can apply the vocabulary in everyday usage.
          

o, I have an idea! I would share with you about anything you want to ask about conducting a fun test and not losing our time too much on checking the test.

Feel free to contact me via this blog and I will help with open arms. Just remember one thing that our target language is English and English is a foreign language to most of our students. So, don't get tired reminding them every time we meet them, but do it in different ways. So that both of the students and the teachers won't get bored.

Learning Vocabulary is like having a beautiful pony.
Hard to get, difficult to tame but
worth to keep.