{"id":2169,"date":"2020-05-18T07:53:40","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T15:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/?p=2169"},"modified":"2020-05-18T15:13:40","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T23:13:40","slug":"how-we-improve-our-vocabulary-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/how-we-improve-our-vocabulary-video\/","title":{"rendered":"How We Improve Our Vocabulary (Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk to a group of students and scholars at the IZ Education Center (Iran) via Skype on May 15, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve edited the video to include only my presentation, since I don&#8217;t have permission to include video\/audio feeds during the Q&amp;A session.<\/p>\n<p>The video quality of the recording via Skype isn&#8217;t brilliant, but the audio is mostly fine.<\/p>\n<p>I talk about how we do &#8211; and do not &#8211; improve our vocabulary, focusing on academic vocabulary instruction and its efficiency versus free reading.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: there will be gesticulation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vUqJuCYoyQQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I gave a talk to a group of students and scholars at the IZ Education Center (Iran) via Skype on May 15, 2020. I&#8217;ve edited the video to include only my presentation, since I don&#8217;t have permission to include video\/audio feeds during the Q&amp;A session. The video quality of the recording via Skype isn&#8217;t brilliant, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/backseatlinguist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}