Teach Vocabulary with the 'Diglot Weave' Story Method

Teaching vocabulary is hard.

There are so many new words that students get bored. It's tough to find ways to keep our students engaged while they learn new lexis.

A professor called Robbins Burling also thought so, and in 1968 he proposed a new 'outlandish' way to teach vocabulary. He added words he wanted students to learn into stories in his students’ first language.

Mixing the two languages to create stories this way is called a ‘diglot weave’.

Over time researchers have tested this method of mix...