Visual techniques
Teaching vocabulary can become easier with the use of cards with pictures, diagrams and liberal colour coding for grammatical clarity. In this way, words are remembered by their colour or position on a page or their association with other words, pictures or phrases. Images can link to a word; words can also be linked to other words, for example, a student might link the word ‘car’ with ‘garage’ and with ‘mechanic’. This idea of engaging the other sense can also help with developing a kind of semantic map where words are listed which relate to each other, which creates a situation where one word reminds the student of another.