VOCABULARY

1. What is vocabulary?

Vocabulary is commonly defined as "all the words known and used by a particular person”

A person's vocabulary is the set of words within a language that are familiar to that person.

2. Why is vocabulary important ?

To express feeling, ideas and needs To understand others better ,etc.

3. How should vocabulary be learned?

Types of vocabulary Ways to learn vocabulary

Types of vocabulary

Listening VocabularyReading vocabularySpeaking vocabulary Writing vocabulary.

Types of vocabulary

Based on the needs of the learners and the usefulness of the vocabulary items

High- frequency words Low- frequency words

Ways to learn Vocabulary

Learning vocabulary based on word frequency

Learning vocabulary based on four strands of vocabulary learning

Learning vocabulary based on word frequency

High- frequency words => ensuring that they are well- learned

Ex:o A General Service List English Words by

Michael West ( 1953)o Academic Word List by Coxhead ( 2000)Low- frequency words.

Learning vocabulary based on four strands of vocabulary learning

Learning Vocabulary from Meaning- focused Input

Learning Vocabulary from Meaning- focused Output

Deliberate Vocabulary learning.Develop Fluency with Vocabulary across

the Four Skills

Meaning- focused Input Strand

Learning through Listening and Reading

Meaning- focused Output Strand

Learning from Speaking and Writing

Deliberate learning

Deliberate learning can raise learners’ consciousness of particular words.

Deliberate learning can help learners gain knowledge of strategies and of systematic features of the language.

Well- established vocabulary learning

Fluency development

The focus lies on improving fluency in your target language in all four skills: listening, writing, reading and speaking.

The goal is not to learn new items or new language, but to increase your processing of existing skills