Looking for any effective ways of vocabulary learning for foreign/second language learners...
Appreciate any advice; thank you!
Hulya
Mrs/Miss. Avci,
Via reading texts. It is easy to learn new words in context, rather than to repeat an isolated word and its translation.
Mrs/Miss. Avci,
Via reading texts. It is easy to learn new words in context, rather than to repeat an isolated word and its translation.
Hello,
Words are like fish. They are easy to catch but difficult to hold. When an adult learner learns a particular word, s/he should visit it at different times. It is suggested that visiting and using a word at least seven times will helpful for registering it at one's long term memory.
Best regards,
R. Biria
eReaders will be a better option to teach adult learners new words. They can also use electronic flash card a well.
What strategies do you suggest adult learners for learning new words in second language?
When we are learning the second language - it is assumed that we know our first language as baseline. We can based on this base line to expand our other language learning through cross references in terms of meaning, association of different things / terms, similarity / sounds alike in terms of pronounciation etc. in helping us to learn. However, finding to master a language there is no other short-cut except practice makes perfect. As what Confucius had shared: “I Hear and I Forget, I See and I Remember, I Do and I Understand”.
Please check out Joe Barcroft's method. It's all based on research!
Dear Ms. Hulya Avci,
I hope that our article on the issue available in researchgate can shed light on what you are looking for:
Article Interplay between Topic Familiarity and Passage Sight Vocabu...
Could use mobile phone games to form new words (that are meaningful) from a given word in groups; and these words used during speaking or writing tasks in class to reinforce mastery of the words.
Hello, Hulya Ave! We appreciate your needs and suggest you visit the following links to view our articles on the topic : www.igboscholarsforum.com.ng for our paper entitled: The second language status of the Igbo language and vocabulary development and www.ajol.info/index.php/mjas/article /download /142343/132080 for Task-based teaching and learning of Igbo as second language: A musical approach. We hope they are useful to you. Tanx. Nwankwere, Mmadike & Opara and Nwankwere & Opara.
vocabulary learning and enhancing in the second language is an art and practice. For the adult learners, the association method and mind mapping is easy. For the experienced learners it is better to enhance it by self reading and introspection. This is my personal experience
While suggesting contextual presentation as the best strategy (due to adults' better conceptual understanding), teachers should never avoid experimenting with a variety of other strategies as well since learning is also influenced by individual differences.
In my experience, the best way for a learner to acquire new vocabulary and then employ it in their daily lives is to use it as soon as they learn it. For some learners, this may be as simple as the old adage "use a word three times, and it's yours" which could mean the use was planned in advance, i.e Waiting in line at the post office to buy stamps just to use new vocab and phrases they may have recently learned. For others, this may mean, say for beginners, a trip to the grocery store, picking up a fruit or vegetable, saying its name, holding it, and even smelling it. There's a great deal of research linking smell and memory more than the other senses.
In my experience, if you know how to decode the language, then acquisition is easy. Practicing oral fluency and reading texts aloud assist the learner to hear, see and touch the word for better comprehension to develop.
Watching movies as much as possible and hearing News with headphone
hi. asking them to put the new vocabulary across the curriculum meaning that they should be reviewed and reproduced in different following situations. use eVoc teaching/learning strategies through digital tools and resources to foster word learning. they can take advantage of multi-media usage helping learners learn new words by audio, visual, kinesthetic and other learning strategies. best
Ten ways to learn new words as a language learner
1) No random words
2) Learn in chunks and scripts
3) Use your inner voice
4) Visualize what the word or phrase looks like
5) Create mnemonics
6) Use spaced repetition
7) Dive deeper into etymology
8) Challenge yourself with word games
9) Write it down
10) Speak it into reality
Best Regards Hulya Avci
Not based on research, this is just coming out of my own experience, but I think reading books is a great way (children's books first and then move up from there). This gives all of the news words you learn some context. Also, the more repetitive the book, the better. Also, reading comic books and graphic novels is a great way because it has the added context of drawings.
It has been suggested that learning new words is better done in a particular context, that's to say, learning full sentences should be a good strategy to learn new vocabulary.
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