This presentation is about what aspects should we consider when learning vocabulary from a foreign language. Besides, it is mentioned some vocabulary learning strategies for training our students in the foreign language classroom.

1. Vocabulary
Luis Eduardo Aricapa

2. What is Vocabulary?
Word knowledge is an essential
component of communicative
competence which is important
for production and
comprehension in a second
language (Coady & Hucking,
1997)
LEARNING A SECOND
LANGUAGE REQUIRES
LEARNING ITS
VOCABULARY

3. “While without grammar very little
can be conveyed, without
vocabulary nothing can be
conveyed”
(Wilkins, 1972, p. 111).

4. Words that exist in a
particular language or
subject that are used by a
particular person
Vocabulary:

5. Knowing a word
How do you learn
a new word?

6. Knowledge of
pronunciation
Spelling Multiple
meanings
Frequency
with which it is
used
Morphological
and syntactical
properties
Contexts in
which the
word can be
used
How that word
combines with
other words
Qian (1999)

7. Nation (2001)
The
form
The use
The
meaning

8. Vocabulary Learning
Strategies
Schmitt (1997)

9. Discovery Strategies Consolidation Strategies
Determination Strategies
Social strategies
Memory strategies
Cognitive strategies
Metacognitive strategies

10. Incidental and
intentional
vocabulary learning

11. Incidental
Incidental vocabulary guarantees a deeper mental
processing and better retention of words due to the fact
that learners get easily involved in the process of
deciphering the meaning of a word towards the clues
provided by the context (Ahmad, 2011)
The words that learners encounter in incidental
vocabulary learning will be retained in the long term
memory and could be used more confidently in different
situations. (Hulstijn & Laufer, 2001)

12. Intentional
Since it is more based on synonyms, antonyms, word
substitution, multiple choices, scrambled words, and
crossword puzzle regardless the context, learners are more
prone to rote learning (Ahmad, 2011).

13. Merci beaucoup
pour votre
attention