Practice with the definitions and synonyms from your list. After introducing the list try these activities out: Comprehensible Practice: You will be surprised to see just how quickly they start to use these same words when they are speaking or writing in Spanish. Use descriptive words that are helpful to your students such as: person, place, thing, action, etc. Try to make the definitions level appropriate and comprehensible (do NOT just take from RAE or Wordreference and copy/paste). You are doubling or tripling the amount of language your students are exposed to and receiving. Most importantly: create your vocabulary list with SPANISH definitions or synonyms. It sounds like a lot of work to keep re-inventing the wheel with new lists, but if you have a bank of solid vocabulary activities that you can keep re-using in your Spanish class, it’s really not that bad! Let’s talk about that list- just WHAT can I do to make the words stick? As these things evolve so should our lists. Students’ interests change, technology changes, and relevant topics change. Keeping one vocabulary list that you use in your Spanish class year after year is not practical. I am constantly redesigning my lists to keep up with the times and interests of students, which is something I think is really important. In every level I teach, I use a vocabulary list as a way to ground the unit and it gives us a good base. At the end of the day, we just want to get our students using MORE real language and increase the vocabulary that our students are using in and out of our Spanish class. Whether you use vocab lists or not, no judgment here- we all have to do what we feel is right and what we enjoy. Do you use vocabulary lists in your Spanish class? Are you looking for more ways (ideally LOW PREP) to get your students practicing vocabulary with fun and engaging activities? Maybe you’re just looking for some new vocabulary activities to try out in your Spanish class? Whatever the case- you’re in the right place!
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