Andrew Cohen

Learning
Vocabulary
Words
Escobar Lucas - EPDOC IV
 MNEMONICS
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This chapter WORD ANALYSIS

provides
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suggestions COGNATES
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for learning THE ROLE OF THE DICTIONARY

vocabulary
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FLASHCARDS

through:
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GROUPING WORDS
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 Ronald Carter
Concludes
A mixture of approaches should be adopted
such as learning words both in and out of
context.

Cognitive Psychologists

Ronald Concur that if you really want to learn words, it

pays to analyze and enrich them by
associations or images.

Carter
 Strategies for
remembering words
 AYMARA ENGLISH
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Learn the CAYU
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10 words PANKARA
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BUT

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TO WRITE
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Using mnemonics
associations
 BY LINKING THE WORD TO THE SOUND OF A WORD
IN THE NATIVE LANGUAGE

BY ATTENDING TO THE MEANING OF A PART

OF SEVERAL PARTS
OF THE WORLD

BY NOTING THE STRUCTURE OF PART OR ALL

You can create OF THE

WORLD

associations between BY PLACING THE WORD IN THE TOPIC

a target language GROUP TO WHICH IT

BELONGS

word to be learned BY VISUALIZING THE WORD IN ISOLATION

OR IN A WRITTEN

and something else CONTEXT

BY LINKING THE WORD TO THE SITUATION IN
WHICH IT
APPEARED
BY CREATING A MENTAL IMAGE OF THE
WORD
BY ASSOCIATING SOME PHYSICAL
SENSATION TO THE WORD

BY ASSOCIATING THE WORD TO A

KEYBOARD
Vocabulary
learning
strategies
Word analysis

Yorkey, 1970 Clarke and Nation, 1980 Nation, 1990

Traditional approaches Suggest leaving word Current approaches
point out the analysis as the last resort. would warn against
importance of relying on analysis of
attending to part of roots and affixes
words as a clue to their
meaning.
The learning of
cognates

True cognate False cognates

The target language Two words look alike
word is the same or but mean different
quite similar to one in things in their
your native language. respective language.
E.G: Dentist - Dentista E.G: Pie (pastel) - Pie
(foot)
Using a
dictionary
It is good for checking those words that keep coming up
and that are not readily understood from a context. It is
also good for finding the meaning to unknown words
that seem to be crucial to the meaning of the utterance.
Strategies for
practicing words
 Flashcards

Small cards, On one side appears the word and

possibly related forms. On the other side appears a
definition of the word in the target language.
Nation, 1990.
Stresses that learning is more efficient if the target language word form is
associated with a word in the native language rather than a target language
synonim or definition.
 Grouping

Groups could be based on the type of word

(nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc.) and on a theme or
topic.
George, 1972.
Called attention to the possibility that the learner will make
CROSS-ASSOCIATIONAL ERRORS when learning two words
that share semantic characteristics.
What is
Fiction?
From a writer's point of view
Presentations are communication tools
that can be used as lectures.