TEFL Vocabulary Terminology 5

Question 1

What is 'semantic prosody'?

Accepted Answer

The consistent positive or negative associations a word acquires through its typical collocates

Answer

Semantic prosody refers to the attitudinal or evaluative coloring a word takes on from the company it typically keeps, e.g., 'cause' often collocates with unpleasant events.

Question 2

Which vocabulary teaching approach uses a 'word wall' in the classroom?

Accepted Answer

Communicative approach with environmental print

Answer

Word walls display key vocabulary prominently in the classroom environment, supporting communicative approaches by providing constant visual reference for learners.

Question 3

What is the Academic Word List (AWL) designed to do?

Accepted Answer

Identify vocabulary common across academic disciplines not covered by basic word lists

Answer

Coxhead's AWL (2000) contains 570 word families that appear frequently across a range of academic subject areas and are not already in the most common 2,000 words.

Question 4

What is 'circumlocution' as a vocabulary communication strategy?

Accepted Answer

Describing or talking around a word the speaker doesn't know

Answer

Circumlocution is a communication strategy where a speaker describes the concept or function of an unknown word rather than using the word itself.

Question 5

What does 'derivational morphology' involve in vocabulary instruction?

Accepted Answer

Teaching how prefixes and suffixes change a word's meaning or grammatical class

Answer

Derivational morphology focuses on affixes that alter a word's meaning or part of speech, such as adding '-tion' to 'communicate' to form the noun 'communication.'

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TEFL Vocabulary Terminology 5