Another way to integrate more vocabulary practice and learning into TOEIC lessons
Another way to integrate more vocabulary learning into TOEIC lessons Charles Jannuzi University of Fukui, Japan Introduction Today's third period class (after lunch, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m.) was Comprehensive English Communication II . This course emphasizes reading, vocabulary, and TOEIC reading and is complementary to Comprehensive English Communication I (which focuses on listening, vocabulary, and TOEIC listening). The TOEIC reading practice unit that we were doing was themed on 'Health', and this theme then selected vocabulary related to that theme (e.g., patient, symptoms, surgery, dentist, etc.). Each unit in the textbook starts off with a list of key vocabulary items and asks students to translate them into L1 (for most, that's Japanese or Chinese). However, rather than simply start out the unit with this vocabulary activity (which is typical of many of the TOEIC practice books marketed for EFL in Japan), I thought it would be beneficial to elicit voca...