Vocabulary learning strategies

VocabularyLuis Eduardo Aricapa

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

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

Words that exist in a particular language or subject that are used by a particular person

Vocabulary:

Knowing a word

How do you learn a new word?

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)

Nation (2001)

The form The useThe

meaning

Vocabulary Learning Strategies

Schmitt (1997)

Discovery Strategies Consolidation Strategies

Determination Strategies

Social strategies

Memory strategies

Cognitive strategies

Metacognitive strategies

Incidental and intentional vocabulary learning

IncidentalIncidental 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)

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).

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