Teaching Vocabulary (and More) through Text [Ep. 68]

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Do you find it a struggle to help your students learn vocabulary?

It’s been a challenge of mine for most of my English language teaching career.

But last semester I discovered a resource that’s helping me change that – all thanks to James Thomas.

VersaText is a free online vocabulary tool that helps language teachers like you and me create text-specific materials and help our students discover new ways of thinking about words.

Through the use of a fun yet intentional word cloud, concordance, and word profiler, I’m learning how to systematically help my students learn better. And I have to say, it feels really good.

So if vocabulary is one of your topics of interest, or a need like me, listen in to hear James share his knowledge and wisdom about learning and teaching words.

My favorite quote from the episode? “I always think it's like looking at a text through a kaleidoscope.” I’d never thought about a word cloud in this way, but I can see it! Maybe you can too?

For full show notes of this episode, visit https://www.eltresourceroom.com/podcast/68-teaching-vocabulary-and-more-through-text

Resources Mentioned in the Episode:

• VersaText - The free, online vocabulary tool that James has developed
• Teaching English through Text - VersaText course for English language teachers (25% discount for the first 50 signups using the coupon code versatext25)
• Versatile Publisher - James’ website
• Connect with James on LinkedIn or Facebook

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