2. What is Vocabulary?
First we must ask, what is a word? A sound or a
combination of sounds, or its representation
in writing or printing, that symbolizes and
communicates a meaning and may consist of a
single morpheme or of a combination of
morphemes.
3. What Vocabulary should be learned?
What vocabulary to focus on should be
determined y two major considerations the
needs of the learners and the usefulness of
the vocabulary items.
4. How should vocabulary be learned?
Some tips to learn vocabulary:
o Read
o Improve your context skills
o Practice
o Pay with words
o Make a vocabulary list
o Take vocabulary tests
5. Deliberate Vocabulary Learning
These are guidelines through the use of word cards:
o Retrieve rather than recognize
o Use appropriately sized groups of cards
o Space the repetitions
o Repeat the words aloud or to yourself
o Avoid interference
o Avoid a serial learning effect
o Use context where this helps
6. Vocabulary Size and Language
Proficiency
This means that the relationship between
vocabulary size and overall linguistic ability
may differ from one language to another.
The general point here is that the sheer size of
English vocabulary has very marked effect on
the way we teach English and severely
constrains the lever of achievement we expect
of learners.
