• Words that one is not only able to recognize but also able to use in speech and writing
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Summary
● Importance of vocabulary in language learning ●Assumptions about vocabulary learning ●Elements related to knowing a word
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Aims for this time
At the end of this time, you will be able to know: ● the importance of vocabulary in language learning; ● some assumptions about vocabulary learning; ● what knowing a word involves.
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Homework
●Go over the today’s contents and read more about vocabulary teaching.
●Preview the rest parts of Unit 9.
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●Importance of vocabulary
➢“Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.” (D.A. Wilkins)
➢Words are bricks to a language. ➢Words build meaning and convey thoughts.
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● Some common assumptions about vocabulary
➢ Avocabulary item can be more than one word. ➢ Languages consist of “words” with equivalents from one language to another . ➢Vocabulary cannot be taught. It must be learned by the individuals. ➢ Both teachers and students need to know that there is a difference between
Collocations Synonyms Antonyms Hyponyms Receptive
& productive vocabulary
Denotative meaning
• The primary, literal or explicit meaning • Those words that we use to label things as
• words that one is able to recognize and comprehend in reading or listening but unable to use automatically in speaking or writing
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Productive vocabulary
regards real objects, such as a name or a sign, etc. in the physical world
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Connotative meaning
• The meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning
• Antonyms: items that mean the opposite ords which can be grouped together under the same superordinate concept
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Receptive vocabulary
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Collocations
• Words that co-occur with high frequency and have been accepted as ways for the use of words
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• Synonyms: items that mean the same, or nearly the same
Unit 9 Teaching Vocabulary(1)
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Aims for the unit
At the end of the unit , you will be able to know: ●what knowing a word involves; ●ways to present new vocabulary items; ●ways to consolidate vocabulary; ●vocabulary learning strategies.
active and passive vocabulary. ➢The best way to explain vocabulary is to translate. ➢ English-English explanations are the best for vocabulary teaching.
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● What does knowing a word involve?
Aword
Form
Meaning
Pronunciation & stress
Spelling & grammatical properties
Denotative &
Connotative
One morphem
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More than one morpheme with different bound