32.33, Confs: Applied Ling/Online

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Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:17:18
From: Jennifer Hill [tesol.valdadige.etschtal at gmail.com]
Subject: How might word frequency inform vocabulary teaching and learning?

 
How might word frequency inform vocabulary teaching and learning? 

Date: 29-Jan-2021 - 29-Jan-2021 
Location: Online (hosted by the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy), Italy 
Contact: Jennifer Hill 
Contact Email: tesol.valdadige.etschtal at gmail.com 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

''How might word frequency inform vocabulary teaching and learning?''

This workshop will begin with an introduction to the notion of word frequency
(WF) as well as the concept of the WF effect and its possible influence on
vocabulary learning efficacy in English Language Teaching (ELT). We will then
move on to consider how words have conventionally been counted and divided
into WF bands. Following on from this, participants will be given the
opportunity to use and familiarise themselves with online WF lists which can
be implemented as a tool to inform the decision-making process when choosing
appropriate texts for teaching and assessment purposes. The workshop will
conclude with an overview as to how recent WF research is reshaping how
vocabulary is counted and the implications this may have for ELT.

Andrew Wimhurst is the Scientific and Didactic Collaborator for English at the
Language Centre, Free University of Bolzano (unibz) and a part-time PhD
student in Applied Linguistics (Lexical Studies) at Swansea University, Wales.
His PhD research is on the effect of method of administration on response
behaviour in word association tasks. He also holds an MA in Teaching English
to Speakers of Other Languages. 

Andrew has worked as a contract lecturer in English for Specific and Academic
Purposes (ESAP) at unibz and has taught in the UK, Germany and Italy at
university, secondary and primary school level. He was the coordinator of the
TESOL Italy Val d‘ Adige-Etschtal local group from 2018 until 2020 and has
been a Director of Studies at a UK EFL summer school.
 






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