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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.
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
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