2. One of the most difficult questions to answer in
vocabulary studies is “what is a word?” and
there are variety of only partly satisfactory
answers depending on the reasons for asking
the questions.
3. Often we are interested in how many words
someone know or uses. For example, if we
are interested in how much “sight vocabulary”
a learner has (words that are known well
enough to be recognized quickly and
accurately)
4. Many teachers would assume that vocabulary
learning stems mainly from the direct
teaching of words in classroom. How ever
vocabulary learning needs to be more broadly
based than this.
5. With vocabulary across the four skills.
Repetition called: The well-beaten path
approach.
Making many connections and associations
with a known item, called the richness
approach.
