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Structural method of teaching vocabulary (SMTV)

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Description

The structural method of teaching vocabulary is an approach based on "the morphological analyses of the word", breaking words into prefixes, root and suffixes to illustrate meanings. Students analyze the word rather than the sentence, generate new words from the root form (for example forming adjectives and adverbs from nouns or verbs), and act as partners who manage their own learning, with the teacher as facilitator. In this study it was operationalized in 20 validated lesson plans and contrasted with the definitional method of looking up meanings in a dictionary or glossary or drill.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Teachers must be trained to analyze words morphologically and to design generation exercises from root words

Constraints

  • Studied only with ninth-grade Federal Government Urdu-medium school students in Islamabad, on the first three chapters of the 9th-class textbook

Target Learners

  • secondary-level (9th grade) English learners of mixed achievement levels

Learning Goals

  • English vocabulary knowledge, retention and use across listening, semantics, syntax and word formation

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Malik Behlol & Hukam Dad. (2010). Effectiveness of Structural Method of Teaching Vocabulary. English Language Teaching, 3(3). https://www.ccsenet.org/elt
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title Structural method of teaching vocabulary (SMTV)
description The structural method of teaching vocabulary is an approach based on "the morphological analyses of the word", breaking words into prefixes, root and suffixes to illustrate meanings.
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