Learning Vocabulary

Learning Vocabulary

1. Learning is remembering

   • steps of memory
     • Short-term store
       • It holds a limited number of items or information for a short period of time (some seconds)
     • Working memory
       • Transitory information in the mind
         • articulatory loop
           • It enables a person to remember short strings of words by rehearsing them repeatedly in his head
         • mental sketch pad
     • Long-term memory
       • It has enormous capacity and its contents are durable over time
         • principles to store information in the long term memory
           • Repetition
             • Repiting a word over spaced intervals
           • Retrieval
             • Recovering a word from memory
           • Spacing
             • Distributing memory work across a period of time (distributed practise)
           • Pacing
             • Doing learning process at learner's own pace
           • Use
             • Putting words to use ("use it or lose it")
           • Cognitive depths
             • Using cognitive strategies
           • Personal organizer
             • Personalized strategies developed by the learner
           • Imaging
             • associate new word with mental images
           • Mnemonics
             • Hints the learner has to retrieve items or rules stored in his/her memory
           • Motivation
             • Being enthusiastic at learning new words
           • Affective depths
             • Making affective judgements about words
           • Attention/arousal
             • Being conscious and paying attention to what is being learned

2. Avoiding forgetting

   • Retention of easy learned words
   • Distributed practise
     • Learning words over spaced learning sessions
   • Reciycling
     • Spaced review of loaned material

3. Difficulties

   • False friends
     • actually ≠ actualmente
   • pronunciation
     • Otolaryngology
   • Spelling
     • misspell
   • Length and complexity
     • Antidisestablishmentarianism
   • Grammar
     • phrasal verbs
   • Meaning
     • get
   • Range, connotation and idiomacity
     • English propaganda ≠ Spanish propaganda

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