Language Acquisition Model

Vocabulary Acquisition Model

• Teacher-guided instructional model
• Facilitates students' development of vocabuarly
• Encourages deep understanding of vocabulary

What is the history of the Vocabulary Acquisition model?

History

• Thomas Estes was responsible for naming this model and it's steps.
• Students look at vocabulary and make connections.

What are the steps Vocabulary Acquisition model?

What are the steps of the Vocabulary Acquisition model?

• Pretest knowledge of academic vocabulary
• Elaborate and discuss invented spellings and hypothesized meanings
• Explore patterns of meanings

What are the steps of the Vocabulary Acquisition model?

• Read and Study
• Evaluate and post-test

What content is best to teach when applying the Vocabulary Acquisition model?

When to use this model

• When teaching etymology and morphology.
• To teach vocabulary and language to assist in understanding content.
• To develop a deeper understanding of vocabulary.

Appropriate and Inappropriate

Examples

Appropriate

• In any content area
• For students to understand a word's parts and meanings as a way to enhance their overall comprehension of the word.

Inappropriate

• Highlighting important words in textbooks
• Asking students to write down definitions

Benefits and Challenges

Benefits

• Promotes independent vocabulary growth
• Students are able to break down words into parts and meanings
• Connect to their schema

Challenges

• It can be difficult to accurately assess a student's vocabulary knowledge.
• Vocabulary acquisition becomes more challenging as students progress to higher levels, dealing with complex words, idiomatic expressions, and specialized terminology.

How can the Vocabulary Acquisition model be used to differentiate instruction and support diverse learners' needs?

Differentiation

• ELLs can learn about a word in their language and in English
• Partnering students that have the same home language
• use of visuals and graphic organizers
• Digital research

How can technology be used to implement the Vocabulary Acquisition model?

Technology

• Etymology and morphology aid
• Online dictionaries and thesaurus
• Drawing and visual representation apps.
• Search engines

The Vocabulary Acquisition model