‘’TEACHING IDEAS’’’’CTE319’’ AND ‘’DATA-DRIVEN LEARNING’’

Technology brings very effective ways to make teaching and learning process easier. In teaching, Vocabulary Profile and Concordance can be the ones of the most effective ways because learners can quickly reach the information with these technological programs. In teaching, I would like to use these tools in order to provide brief information before examining the topic in detail. And also, I would like to use these tools to find the definitions and words that are required to be highlighted.

Vocabulary Profiling

1

While students learn English, they confront many unknown words. Guessing unknown words, in my opinion, change person to person because the range of knowledge is different in each person. However, while I am with new learners of English, I usually see many students who fail to guess of an unknown word. Failing to guess unknown words sometimes happens to me because I don’t have the background knowledge of English as native speakers.

2

 My course books don’t include the guessing meaning of unknown word, but in first class, there were books which included these types of activities. The activities in those books showed us to guess the words from the context of the texts. No, "9 out of 10" rule wasn’t observed.

3

A person who teaches should develop their sense of word frequency because they use the language in order to teach and interact with the students by using language and also s/he will teach a text in a book in detail. So as not to confront problems during teaching and learning process, a teacher should develop his/her sense of word frequency. Moreover, students show teachers as role models, so they should have a good sense of word frequency to be a good model.