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Podcast: Thrive in ELT
Episode: Teaching Vocabulary (and More) through Text
Description: Do you find it a struggle to help your students learn vocabulary? It's been a challenge of mine for most of my English language teaching career. But last semester I discovered a resource that's helping me change that – all thanks to James Thomas. VersaText is a free online vocabulary tool that helps language teachers like you and me create text-specific materials and help our students discover new ways of thinking about words. Through the use of a fun yet intentional word cloud, concordance, and word profiler, I'm learning how to systematically help...