Vocabulary Teaching Practices of L2 English in Upper Secondary Vocational Classrooms

This qualitative study investigates language teaching practices relating to L2 English vocabulary instruction in upper secondary school vocational classrooms in Norway. It builds on previous research describing technical vocabulary as an area of particular importance for vocational students' English language development and relies on observation data from eight vocational classrooms. The study found that vocabulary work has a strong presence within vocational orientation (VO) instruction, across whole-class instruction, group or pair work, and individual work. Most target vocabulary could be classified as words relating to work practices and vocational content knowledge. Many instances of L1-L2 translation tasks were observed. Target words were not practiced across the four language skills and were rarely utilized in productive tasks. The study concludes that observed practices can be improved by prioritizing ways of combining target vocabulary with students' language production and by including more opportunities to practice independent language strategies

Class (philosophy · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Teaching method · Vocabulary · Vocabulary development · Vocational education · Work (physics · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Engineering · Psychology · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Second Language Learning and Teaching · Artificial Intelligence

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