INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING CONTENT AREA VOCABULARY IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM

Authors

  • Khadijat Muhammad Sama Department of Curriculum Studies & Educational Technology, Faculty of Education and Extension Services, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35386/ser.v11i2.346

Keywords:

Instructional, Strategies, Teaching, Content Area, Vocabulary, Language Classroom

Abstract

The paper attempts to provide instructional strategies for teaching content area vocabulary in the language classroom. In order to arrive at the instructional strategies, a library-based research was conducted. Thus, vocabulary was identified as the inventory of words in a language as such it need to be taught to groom the learner to contend with the challenges the academic environment could provide. Thence, having provided vocabulary teaching methods like word definition, demonstration, antonym, synonym, translation and their likes, the paper underscores the need for the teacher to utilize storytelling, vocabulary pack, cued spelling, contextual redefinition, typically to technical meaning approach and coding polysemous words as instructional strategies for teaching content area vocabulary in the language classroom.

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Published

2020-09-07

How to Cite

Sama, K. M. (2020). INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING CONTENT AREA VOCABULARY IN THE LANGUAGE CLASSROOM. Sokoto Educational Review, 11(2), 273–279. https://doi.org/10.35386/ser.v11i2.346

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 2 (2009): Sokoto Educational Review

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