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creating the sort of word-conscious students who will make
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words a lifetime interest."

2. Multiple exposures to a word in different contexts
“Repetition is the mother of all teachings”, says an old
proverb.One of the most important principle of effective
vocabulary learning is to provide multiple exposures to a
word's meaning.
Students have to see the same word several times in
order to place it in their long term memory. Word meanings are
accumulated gradually that is why vocabulary instruction must
provide student the opportunities to encounter words
repeatedly in multiple different contexts. A word that is
encountered once has about a 10% chance of being learnt from
context.When students see a word repeatedly, they gather more
and more information about it until they acquire an idea of what
it means. Dale and O’Rourke have summarized the four stages
of word knowledge as follows:
1. I never saw it before.
2. I’ve heard of it, but I don’t know what it means.
3. I recognize it in context—it has something to do with
. . .
4. I know it.
The more exposure students have to use a word, the
more likely it is that they will be able to define, comprehend
and remember it later, thus, using several examples of a word
in different contexts reinforces word knowledge
Pobble.com is also incredibly useful for encouraging

4 Graves, M.F. 2000. A vocabulary program to complement and
bolster a middle-grade comprehension program. In B.M. Taylor,
M.F. Graves, and P. Van Den Broek (eds.), Reading for meaning:
Fostering comprehension in the middle grades. New York:
Teachers College Press.
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