Reflection Journal 2

1. Discuss the following terms regarding vocabulary learning: Guessing meaning, word association, collocation, mnemonics,
2. Review other vocabulary teaching approaches. What do you think the most essential components in teaching words
3. Review the Online word games below by clicking each links and discuss what they are and how they can be used:
crossword puzzle, hangman, matching, word search, scrambled words From ITESLJ's Games for ESL Students
Eclipse Crossword Maker


→ I think the most essential part of vocabulary teaching is mnemnics. Though, word association, collocation are important for language ability, I think that anyway we must memory words and its meanings. Mnemonics can help us to remember the words' meaning effectively and even interestingly. Especially me, I think some mnemonics are interesting skills. So Mnemonics are the most important part in vocabulary teaching.

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Reflection Journal 1

1. Discuss activities for better texts comprehension.
2. Discuss what other approaches are suggested in reading than text comprehension(=intensive reading).
3. In what way can multimedia assist adult learners' reading? (Adults means older than elementary school students

→ 1. In my point of view, quantity of reading will be helpful for texts comprehension.

Of course, the materials that are not appropriate for readers can be harmful to reader's

understandig. But in socio-psycholinguistic approach, the familiar materials are more

useful to readers. I agree, too. I think that the materials we already have read can easily

comprehended to readers. So, Quantity of reading is also helpful.

3. Multimedia can be useful for adult learner's reading by providing sufficient reading

materials. As I put emphasis on the quantity of reading, various reading materials are

very important. Multimedia ( like Internet ) can provide lots of reading materials about any

levels. So It is important.

Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was confined to her house as an invalid.[1] The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell living just long enough (five months) to see her first and only novel become a success.

A jack-o'-lantern (sometimes also spelled Jack O'Lantern) is typically a carved pumpkin. It is associated chiefly with the holiday Halloween, and was named after the phenomenon of strange light flickering over peat bogs, called ignis fatuus or jack-o'-lantern. In a jack-o'-lantern, typically the top is cut off, and the inside flesh then scooped out; an image, usually a monstrous face, is carved onto the outside surface, and the lid replaced. At night, a light is placed inside to illuminate the effect. Jack o'lanterns can often be seen in houses and shops in most western countries during Halloween.

A hamper is a primarily British term for a wicker basket, usually large, that is used for the transport of items, often food.
In America, the term generally refers to a household receptacle for dirty clothing, regardless of its composition, i.e. "a laundry hamper".
In agricultural use, a hamper is a wide-mouthed container of basketwork that may often be carried on the back during the harvesting of fruit or vegetables by hand by workers in the field. The contents of the hamper may be decanted regularly into larger containers or a cart, wagon, or truck.

a small mirror in a motor vehicle for checking one's appearance, esp. on the inside of a sun visor