Pleidooi voor systematisch woordenschatonderwijs (Bijdrage in debat over nieuwe eindtermen en leerplannen)
Research shows that the single most important thing that you can do is to explicitly teach students new words. This includes working through comprehensive lists of general words, as well as teaching words associated with concepts you are teaching in other subject areas.
It is dangerous to rely on students learning new vocabulary incidentally through their independent reading. Despite encouragement to read more research10 shows that existing good readers will continue to read more than their less able peers. As a result, good readers expand their vocabulary at a faster rate. Given the link between expanded vocabularies and reading comprehension, this actually increases the gap between proficient and struggling readers.
