Richmond Symposium São Paulo 2012 - Review

By @tati_szabo

José Olavo - Components for a more effective vocabulary development

-Grammar x Vocabulary = recipe x ingredients

• ingredients without recipe: you’ll eat something anyway (communication)
• recipe without ingredients: you’ll starve

-Components to think about when teaching a word:

1. Parts of speech
2. Content clues
3. Cognates and false cognates
4. Homophones
5. Homographs
6. Abbreviations and acronyms
7. Idioms
8. Collocations/ Word combinations
9. Phrasal verbs/ Phrasal noun
10. Proverbs
11. Knowing the roots of words
12. Affixes
13. Words with multiple meaning
14. Verbs, adjectives, nouns preceded or followed by fixed prepositions
15. Irregular verb forms
    
    
    
    
    Monica Camargo - Reading mediation - not only an option
    
    
    -Books should have the same importance of a TV set at home
    only 14% really read (literature)
    Reading helps discover other places, times, ways of acting and being, rules, ethics, optics
    
    
    -Reading is getting to know History, Politics, Philosophy, Law, Sociology etc
    Mediating: helping students to see the possibilities, making them interested in going beyond, that is, coming up with the WH magic: Where, What, When, Who, How, Why.

During the coffee break, which was DELICIOUS, there was a Flamenco presentation.

By the end of the symposium, we had the raffle and I
got a book and a t-shirt about Global Warming.