Applying Vocabulary-Teaching Strategies to an Authentic Text
Although a considerable number of studies on L2 vocabulary teaching and
learning are available, lacking are examples of how teachers can apply the
various research findings of scholars to their own teaching materials. In
order not only to bridge the gap between theory and practice, but also to
provide a springboard for ESL teachers’ design of vocabulary teaching materials,
I have developed various activities and tasks for vocabulary teaching
and learning that apply effective strategies drawn from others’ research
findings to an authentic Web text, as follows (text drawn from the NASA
Web site; the five underlined words are the target vocabulary items).