...I have too many questions and too many interests in how students use words, are aware of words, play with words, learn words, understand words and their uses.
I have to find time to do more reading and thinking about the data that will help me as well as finalizing my survey questions because I think the survey will help to guide me in the process of narrowing the question and my interest in what the students know and can do related to words.
And, yet, it's good that I have so many questions because I'm interested in my topic and that will keep me going throughout the year -- and through the long and rainy winter! :)
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Saturday, 10/15/11
What I really want to know is …
- How can students' word consciousness (word awareness combined with interest in words) help to facilitate vocabulary growth in content areas such as science or social studies?
- And how do students use this new vocabulary in their speech (both everyday and subject/content related) and writing? How does this get produced by students?
- And how does student knowledge of words help them to build their own vocabulary?
- Does one's interest in the subject influence vocabulary development and on the flip side, does student's ability to use the higher academic vocabulary influence their interest in a subject?
- What do students do with words "just for fun"? Ie: jokes, puns, riddles, double meanings, etc.
- What do students enjoy about learning words?
This is important because …
- students need to have a 50,000+ word vocabulary by the time they graduate from high school and students who do not are more likely to drop out.
Therefore my question at this point is …
- How can students' word consciousness (word awareness combined with interest in words) help to facilitate vocabulary growth in content areas such as science or social studies?
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