Hi all,

I teach ESL and have been interested in the idea of the lexical notebooks.
I've told several of my students about them and encouraged them to begin one
and keep it up. I don't see too much compliance to my suggestions, though.

I'm just now starting a Spanish course - entirely new language for me. I've
started my own lexical notebook and find it is quite a lot of work. I'm
keeping it up though and I'll let you know how I do.

Diane



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> Hi Costadina, The WS notebooks aren't really designed to simply try
> to aid the memory of a large number of selected words in the short-
> term in order to pass an exam. However, if it is necessary to cram
> for exams the given WS method does offer a reasonable solution - but
> one which will probably only produce similar results as learning with
> ordinary lists or cards. WS is more about long-term real vocabulary
> development---and encouraging students to develop good grammar habits
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> From: "willmcculloch" <willmcculloch@...>
> Subject: Lexical notebooks
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> Hi - the following article by Shaun Dowling about lexical notebooks
> will, I hope, be of great interest to other members of this group -
> and I look forward to hearing any feedback on the work... Example
> pages can be downloaded from the British Council site at
> http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/vocabulary/lexical_notebook.sh
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> Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 13:15:18 -0000
> From: "Will McCulloch" <wslesson@...>
> Subject: Lexical notebooks
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> Hi - the following article by Shaun Dowling about lexical notebooks
> will, I hope, be of great interest to other members of this group -
> and I look forward to hearing any feedback on the work... Example
> pages can be downloaded from the British Council site at
> http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/vocabulary.shtml
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> Will
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