Vocabulary
2009. 10.24
What is vocabulary?
A major problem with counting world families is in
deciding what should be counted as a member of
a family.
The most conservative way is to count ‘lemmas’.
A lemma is a set of related words that consists of
the stem form and inflected forms that are all the
same part of speech.
Ex. Approach, approaches, approached,
approaching
Multi-word units (MWUs)
Idioms
What vocabulary should be
learned?
The needs of the learners and the
usefulness of the vocabulary items.
How should vocabulary be
learned?
Learning vocabulary from meaningfocused input (listening and reading)
Learning vocabulary from meaningfocused output (speaking and
writing)
Deliberate vocabulary learning
Strategy Development
Guessing from context.
Learning from word cards and using
word parts.
Dictionary use.
Assessing Vocabulary
Knowledge
．To measure vocabulary size
．To measure what has just been
learned
．To measure what has been learned
in a course
．To diagnose areas of strength and
weakness