Semantic Field

Semantic Field

1. It is a set of words or lexemes related inmeaning.

   • Psychological Relatedness of Words
     • Individual word meanings exist within systems of related meaning
       • Adults are better at remembering words from lists that contain sematically related subsets than words from lists of unrelated words.
     • speech errors made by native speakers come from the same semantic field
   • Advanced Vocabulary Instruction
     • Learner should recognize its relation to other words with similar meaning.
     • Semantic interrelationship among words cannot be acquired incidenally through reading
     • CA shows the learner that words similar meanng are not synonymous
   • Set of kinship terms: father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, uncle, aunt, etc.