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Message board > Does a teacher have to know the whole vocabulary in dictionary? Or how many?
Does a teacher have to know the whole vocabulary in dictionary? Or how many?
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rmouh
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You may become crazy if you know all the words in a dictionary!!! But he/she has to know more than what students know.
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15 May 2009
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feyzauygur
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I think all teachers have the same problem everywhere, in fact it �s not a problem .I sometimes tell them I �M NOT OXFORD DICTIONARY , and don �t have to know all words but I can guess the meaning of the words as I know some Latin and am good at stem, suffix.b prefix . |
15 May 2009
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wolfy
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no a teacher does not have to know all the owrds in the dictionary but a teacher has to know how to find them out quickly. |
16 May 2009
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Jayho
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My reference dictionary has 200,000 words. Other dictionaries have much more, as much as 750,000
The average person has a vocabulary between 10,000 and 20,000 words - it would be humanly impossible to know every single word.
Our students need to know about 4,000 words to be able to naturally converse with native speakers.
My strategy - we break it down to root and affix, predict the meaning (in the context) then look it up in the dictionary. We do this even when I know the word because I want them to use these skills themselves. |
16 May 2009
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