COD 2011 - PS69

20 Ways to Recycle Vocabulary

Teachers of English or any content area; all pedagogic contexts.

1 sessions, start: 18-Feb

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: Primary / Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Analía Kandel MA
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Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 18 February 2011 01:30 pm 04:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Analía Kandel

Analía Kandel is a graduate teacher of English (Instituto Nacional Superior del Profesorado "Dr. Joaquín V. González") and was awarded a Master of Arts in the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language (with Distinction, The University of Reading, UK). She teaches “English Language III” at ISP JVG and at UB School of Languages. She is the President of APIBA (Asociación de Profesores de Inglés de Buenos Aires), Head of the Foreign Languages Department at Boston College, Information and Special Programmes Officer in the Foreign Languages Area at the Ministry of Education, City of Buenos Aires. Her main pedagogical and research areas are the teaching of writing, vocabulary and ICTs.
Teachers of English or any content area; all pedagogic contexts.


To provide teachers with new ideas to recycle vocabulary taught in previous lessons in order to ensure students' retention of lexical items in their long-term memory.
In this workshop participants try out 20 innovative ways to recycle vocabulary with students of various age groups, language levels and pedagogic contexts. The activities to be presented are meaningful and relevant to students' personal lives and aim at fostering elaboration, depth and distinctiveness of processing in order to ensure retention of lexical items in long-term memory.
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