A tutor of mine once told me that for a student to internalise or completely "acquire" a word correctly, s/he would need to read the word 11 times! Now we can't expect our students to be that committed in reviewing their vocabulary list, and we certainly don't have time in class to keep reinforcing the same words for that many times. How can we motivate students to actually go over words introduced in class and even better explore other unfamiliar words on their own? This is where Quizlet comes in.
Quizlet is a really neat tool for introducing new vocabulary as well as independent learning both in and outside the classroom. I first knew about this website from a free webinar delivered by Jo Gakonga (arranged by Jurgen Wagner), and have been using it for my own personal reviewing of academic terms for paper writing he he he.
