e adjective “exciting” and “pleasant” well, and have no difficulty in exploiting them next time.[NextPage]
Another advantage of teaching vocabulary in communication is that it can arouse the students’ motive and interest toward enlarging their size of vocabulary. When students meet difficulty in communication, they will have the urge to consult the dictionary or ask for the help from the teacher or the other students, and try to remember the word he want to express so that next time he would not be awkward when speaking out.
x. Teaching vocabulary in context:
The same word can have various meanings in different contexts. To convey the meaning of a new word exactly, it is better to present the word in the sentence or in the text. There are at last three advantages of teaching vocabulary in context:
Firstly, assessing the meaning of a word in context obliges the learner to develop strategies, such as anticipating and inferencing, which become increasingly profitable as learning progresses because they instill an attitude of self-reliance that is the hallmark of proficiency.
Secondly, systematically meeting new words in context underlines the fact that words are indeed used in discourse for purposes of communication.
Finally, context provides an indication of the way the words are used.
All these factors may contribute to a learner’s autonomy to learn English and to facilitate the transfer of knowledge that accompanies it.
For example, look at the following passage:
“Mary is a very diligent student. She gets up very early every morning. She read a lot of books and study very hard. This year she gets the school prize.”
When teaching the word “diligent”, teacher can present the above context so that students can guess its meaning through the following information and set up a relationship between “diligent”, “early”, “read books”, “study hard”, and “school prize”. This method of teaching not only help the students to understand the exact meaning of a new word, but let them have an idea about the group of words that often appear simultaneously in harmony.
xi. By introducing the knowledge of culture background:
English vocabulary system is an open system. It consistently adopts variation, transformation and has been influenced by other languages in the world for a long history. With the knowledge of the culture background of the vocabulary, teacher can make vocabulary teaching more vivid, interesting and impressive. For example, when teaching the word “NEWS”, teacher can tell the students how this word came into being. It is said that, “NEWS” originated from the first letter of the four directions---N(south), E(east), W(west) and S(south)---indicating that news comes from and spreads to all over the world.
Another example, when students come across such sentence as “It’s raining cats and dogs.” Then if the teacher knows the culture background of this idiom, the students would feel it interesting and not so strange. Legend said that there is a gale within the cat’s tail, so the cat is considered as a symbol of the strong wind; and a wise man named Odin usually carried with him a wolf and a dog with him to prompt the farmers that the rainstorm was coming. So “rains cats and dogs” means “rains heavily”. [NextPage]
IV. By adopting scientific vocabulary teaching techniques, teachers can help students improve their language acquisition ability and language com
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