http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aSuffixes+tag%3aVocabularySearch results for 'tag:Suffixes tag:Vocabulary' matching tags 'Suffixes' and 'Vocabulary'en-USXMOD (Build: 3715.30106)http://www.englishforums.com/English/TeachingReadingComprehension/hjdnh/post.htmSun, 04 Jan 2009 10:02:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:629959successorIt seems to me that reading comprehension skills are very difficult for many English learners. What aspects would you like to emphasise in teaching reading comprehension? Or should it be taught at all? Is it enough if students just read on their own? It think that one of the most important things is to read as widely as possible, ie. EXTENSIVE READING essential. Also the amount of time you spend on reading may help. In addition, if students are allowed to choose the books they read, they will find reading more interesting and thus be more engaged. It might be a good idea to discuss the books one has read with a teacher or a friend, biut I don't find that necessary. Secondly, VOCABULARY BUILDING is necessary. Teachers could help...http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarVocabulary/hrlwz/post.htm#587969Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:08:00 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:587969cliveHi, Could you please check my reflection for grammar and vocabulary mistakes? For a number of months I have been studying word families. In addition to this, I have also been dissecting words for prefixes, suffixes, consonant blends and digraphs, as well as vowel diphthongs. In order for me to have the ownership of my learning, no list of spelling words is provided weekly by my teacher. My active participation in my learning consists of generating a list of words that belongs to the word family I am studying. Words for my spelling quiz are chosen randomly from my lists. I think that this approach to spelling makes me think and therefore helps me remember better. Also , I notice/have noticed that when I am reading I utilize my...http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarVocabulary/hrlwz/post.htmSun, 16 Nov 2008 00:57:23 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:587967knjigaCould you please check my reflection for grammar and vocabulary mistakes? For a number of months I have been studying word families. In addition to this, I have also been dissecting words for prefixes, suffixes, consonant blends and digraphs, as well as vowel diphthongs. In order for me to have the ownership of my learning, no list of spelling words is provided weekly by my teacher. My active participation in my learning consists of generating a list of words that belongs to the word family I am studying. Words for my spelling quiz are chosen randomly from my lists. I think that this approach to spelling makes me think and therefore helps me remember better. Also I noticed that when I am reading I utilize my spelling strategies to...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HowToTeachVocabulary/kmrk/post.htm#366626Thu, 17 May 2007 16:07:36 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:366626titithiI think before teaching vocabulary, we need to choose active and passive vocabulary. For passive words, we only realize and don't spend a lot of time to explain them. Students will research themselves by looking up in the dictionary or guessing from the context. Thus, we have to define which word as a passive or active vocabulary to teach. For active words, we should save time by choosing the real active words which are needed to teach. By eliciting or brainstorming, we will find out which words are really new words and which words are needed to review. Sometimes ,we have to ask directly our students which words they don't know.The best way to teach active words is setting up the context (as Mr Joe has mentioned) by realia, real object,...http://www.englishforums.com/English/SuChengZhongsPostVocabularyProblem-ModernEnglish/xpdh/post.htm#73186Thu, 10 Feb 2005 01:57:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:73186julielaiSu's post: I always wonder some thing in English grammar. For instance, the sentence: I drive him. 'I' is the subject. 'Him' is the object. Yet their position have told us this too. Is that means the English grammar is sort of double expressing? For if the sentences of: I him drive. drive I him. drive him I. him drive I. him I drive. never happened in our printing material, the position will tell us what they are. Another example is this: I carried him, before. It is also double expressing. The past tense 'ed' tells us the action happened in the past, while the word 'before' tells this too. So the question would be; why should we express a certain meaning in a sentence twice, while other meaning only once? Is there any...http://www.englishforums.com/English/HardestLanguageToTeach/3/vbxp/Post.htm#52692Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:25:17 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:52692guestRegarding the many spanish verb conjugations, I must say I truly believe that it's complexity is ultimately what keeps spanish speakers from having such vast vocabulary as english speakers do. A single verb (aside from irregulars, which aren't many) requires knowing only two other words in english -- the third person present and the past "ed" form. In spanish, aside from the infinitive, it is required to know about fifty-six other words, with little-to-no resemblance in their suffixes, to be able to speak properly -- and THAT takes a whole bunch of brain space. Everywhere, from kids on mtv to reporters on cnn, english speakers with such simple grammar have a tremendous capacity for words and for using it as a creative tool, whereas...http://www.englishforums.com/English/PrefixSuffixAndRoots/wqqd/post.htmThu, 02 Sep 2004 07:59:48 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:44203admkush1Hi folks. I was teaching a lesson on vocabulary and decided to teach prefixes, suffixes and roots (eg Latin and Greek). I am not sure how you differentiate between, for example, a prefix and a root. It seems that "hydro" is a root but "geo" is not. "Bio" maybe a root or a prefix?????? Is it that a root can change spelling in an 'English' word? Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks, Kush