Yan Mengjiao (Vicky)
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1. Basic information of Vocabulary
2. The process of learning words as
vocabulary
3. The Importance of Learning Vocabulary
4. Types of Vocabulary
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The word is the basic
unit of language system
used for the purpose of
human communication,
materially representing a
group of sounds,
possessing a meaning,
susceptible to
grammatical employment
and characterized by
formal and semantic
unity.
Lexicology
The vocabulary (lexicon)
of a human language,
whether spoken or
signed, is more than a
list of the pronunciations
(phonology) and
meanings (lexical
semantics) of words.
Vocabulary
Early Stage:
Connecting sounds to letters (phonemic awareness)
Distinguishing between letter sounds (phonics)
Understanding and interpreting what one is reading
(reading comprehension)
Building on the words they do know to learn new words
(vocabulary)
Starting to read easily and with fewer delays (fluency)
Incidental Vocabulary Learning
Intentional Vocabulary Learning
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As a result estimates vary from as little as
10,000 to as many as over 50,000 for young
adult native speakers of English.
Pronunciation
(Phonology)
Meanings
Vocabulary
(Lexicon)
(Lexical Semantics)
Morphological
Information
Syntactic
Information
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Stage 1: Discrimination:
It involves the ability to distinguish sounds, letters from those next to them,
and from the sounds and letters of similar words when listening and reading;
to keep them distinct when speaking and writing.
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Stage 2: Understanding meaning
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understanding the concept of the foreign word or phrase
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Stage 3: Remembering
Once learners have found out the meaning of a word, they have no
reason to attend to it any more, and it will be forgotten
Stage 4: Consolidation and extension of
meaning
Learning new words is not an instantaneous process, and if presentation
were the only critical variable involved, then words would not be forgotten
and need to be relearned.
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Tozcu and Coady (2004: 473) point out learning
vocabulary is an important aspect of language and
foreign language acquisition and academic
achievement and is vital to reading comprehension
and proficiency, to which it is closely linked.
An extensive vocabulary aids expression and
communication.
Vocabulary size has been directly linked to reading
comprehension. Linguistic vocabulary is synonymous
with thinking vocabulary.
Wilkins (1972) once said, "Without grammar, very
little can be conveyed; without vocabulary, nothing
can be conveyed.”
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Productive vocabulary
Productive vocabulary is the set of words that an
individual can use when writing or speaking.
They are words that are well-known, familiar,
and used frequently
Receptive or recognition vocabulary
Receptive or recognition vocabulary is that set of
words for which an individual can assign
meanings when listening or reading. These are
words that are often less well known to students
and less frequent in use