Frequency Principle
Frequency Principle
Vocabulary instruction needs to be intentional and organized according to the frequency principal. Currently many language teachers are not taking advantage of opportunities to recycle vocabulary. Their vocabulary teaching while intentional, could be called an itinerant or a picaresque approach to teaching vocabulary, where they jump from lexical item to lexical item as they arise in class without prioritizing them or recycling them.
Vocabulary instruction needs to be intentional and organized according to the frequency principal. Currently many language teachers are not taking advantage of opportunities to recycle vocabulary. Their vocabulary teaching while intentional, could be called an itinerant or a picaresque approach to teaching vocabulary, where they jump from lexical item to lexical item as they arise in class without prioritizing them or recycling them.