A. DEFINITION OF VOCABULARY :
Vocabulary is the
all the language and words either used or understood by a person or group of
people.
B. THE IMPORTANCE OF VOCABULARY :
Vocabulary becomes
so important for our life because of some reason such :
1. Helps you understand other people. Building your vocabulary involves
more than just memorizing lists of the kinds of words you had to know.
2. Helps you understand what you read. Vocabulary not only aids you in
understanding other people, it’s also essential in comprehending the books and
articles you read. Words you’re unfamiliar with become little holes in the
text, preventing you from reaching a complete understanding of what you’re
reading.
3. Assists you in becoming a more informed and involved citizen. Related
to the two points above, the more you increase your vocabulary in general, and
also specifically in areas like politics, geography, the military, and so on,
the better able you become to understand news and currents events, and the more
widely varied the conversations, discussions, and debates you can jump into.
4. Boosts your powers of persuasion. It’s hard to get people interested in
an idea – whether a tangible product, a business pitch, or a piece of
philosophy — and convince them of it unless you 1) understand it inside and out
yourself, and 2) can describe it to others in an engaging way (see the two
points above). Repeating the same word over and over again (“I’ve got this cool
idea.
5. Helps you make a good impression on others. How articulate you are
constitutes a big part of the impression you make on others. Based on how it is
spelledthe vocabulary you use, people will make judgments about your
socioeconomic background, education, occupation, and the stimulation and
demands of your everyday life.
C. WHAT MAKES
VOCABULARY EASY OR DIFFICULT :
Vocabulary
becomes easy,if:
1. Know how to pronounced
2. Know how it is inflected (i.e. how it
changes if it is a verb, noun or adjective)
3. Know other grammar information about it
4. Know how it collocates (i.e. what other
words are often used with it)
5. Know how to use more on collocation
6. If it has a particular style or register
7. Know the context in which it is most likely
to be used [ Types of Vocabulary ]
Vocabulary
becomes difficult, if :
1.
If we don’t know the meaning of
the word
2.
If we don’t know how to pronounced
it
3.
The word has similiar meaning
4.
Never repeat and repeat the word
you learn
5.
Never practised the word in your
social life
6.
If we don’t know the word use
7. If we don't the word formation and word grammar
D. WHY DO WE FORGET
THE WORDS
Some reasons that
makes we forget the words, such as :
- Too many words to
be remembered;
- Over confidence;
- Lack of
attention;
- Lesser utility of
the word;
- Being busy with
other type of words .
E. SOME WAYS MEMORIZING
VOCABULARY
There
are a lot of good strategies for memorizing your vocabulary — learning the
meaning of suffixes, prefixes, and roots of words, going through word lists and
making flash cards for the words you don’t know, and signing up for a daily.
Here’s how it works:
1. Read. Reading is the single biggest thing you can do to increase your
vocabulary (and of course it offers a whole host of other benefits as well).
2. Listen. You can also pick up new words from the people you talk with
and listen to. This is, after all, exactly how you learned words back when you
were a toddler.
3. Write down words you read and hear that you don’t know. Reading and
listening are the ways you expose yourself to new words.
4. Look up the word in a dictionary and write down its meaning in a
vocabulary notebook. Whenever you hear or read a new word, you should always
stop and try to figure out its meaning from the context in which it is given.
5. Use the new word several times in conversation as soon as you can. This
will really help sear the word into your mind.
6. Never stop learning. Education really never should end. Keep
implementing more vocabulary words into your active vocabulary
1.
Realia : this word refers to the
use of real objects in the classroom. These objects help to make the meaning of
word clear
2. Picture :may be the most useful “
aids” in language teaching, since they are used in different ways.There are:
pictures, blackboard drawings, wall pictures, charts, photos from magazines.
Those “aids” are used to explain the meaning of words or to create a situation
and concept.
3. Mime,gesture and action : this
technique is useful for explanation of the actions and grammar items. Such
concepts as: jumping, smoking or the words : “ from, on, to “ etc.
4. Contrast : contrast usually shows
the similarities and differences between persons ideas and things.
5. Enumeration : this technique helps
when any word is difficult to explain visually. We can say ‘clothes’ and
explain this by enumerating or listing various items.
6. Explanation : this is such a
technique which is assigned to be utilised with upper-beginners,who already
have some knowledge of English
7. Synonym : this technique relies on
explanation of meaning of new word by giving other word,which students know and
understand.
8. Antonym : in this technique
teacher explains the meaning of new word,by giving its opposite, if students
know the word meaning contrary feature e.g. Warm -is not cold.
9. Definition : -is suitable method
for upper-beginners and relies on giving the definition of given word.It can be
simple,unnecesary precise and scientific definition,given by the teacher.
10. Polish equivalent :-in this method
the teacher gives the translation of given word in the national language.The
translation is th equickest way of demonstrating the meaning of vocabulary
items.
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