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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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