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VSSPlus session sequence: word selection with three questions followed by technology-mediated word-study artifacts

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Description

The article's training sessions follow a repeated design: teams read a text, select an unknown word, ask and answer three questions (where the word is found, what it means, why it is important to learn it), then produce a technology artifact — an e-Dictionary page with audio recording, a Wordsift visual linking synonyms, or a Thinglink image with tagged definitions and a podcast — and present it to other teams. The article describes sessions in which "each team to co-operate together to select from the previously post-reading text another word" and present it via PPT for discussion.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Small teams of about 4 students with exchangeable roles
  • Reading texts containing unknown vocabulary appropriate to learners' level
  • Access to technological tools (wikis, PPT, audio recording, Wordsift, Thinglink, Podbean)

Constraints

  • Validated in the article for first-level university EFL students in a Vocabulary Building course

Target Learners

  • first-level university EFL students

Learning Goals

  • selecting, defining and using new vocabulary in correct sentences

Claims

Examples

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Key Sources

  • Manal Mohamed Khodary. (2017). Using the Vocabulary Self-Collection Strategy Plus to Develop University EFL Students' Vocabulary Learning. English Language Teaching, 10(8). https://doi.org/10.5539/elt.v10n8p135
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id vssplus-session-sequence-pattern
title VSSPlus session sequence: word selection with three questions followed by technology-mediated word-study artifacts
description The article's training sessions follow a repeated design: teams read a text, select an unknown word, ask and answer three questions (where the word is found, what it means, why it is important to learn it), then produ...
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