THE GOALS OF VOCABULARY LEARNING

PRESENTED BY:*Diego Castañeda

*Laura García*Julián Hernández*Carolina Loaiza

*Sebastián Rueda

2016

The goals of vocabulary

learning

How much vocabulary do learners need

to know?

How many words are

there in the language?

Tokens Types

Lemmas Word Families

How many words do native speakers know?

How much vocabulary do you need to use another language?

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Kinds of vocabulary

Technical words

Academic words

High-frecuency words

Low-frequency words

First Step

Basic Vocabulary

All kind of uses

Low-frequency words

Some high frecuency words ( in general)

Specialised vocabulary

High-frequency

words

Coverage of texts

Special purposes

Speaking Special vocabularies

Reading academic texts

Reading newspapers

Children’s stories

Kinds of words…

• Common data among subjects.

• Common writing pattern.Academic

• Do not occur in other subject areas.

• Specific purpose.Technical

How large are they?

What to do with

specialized vocabulary?

LOW-FREQUENCY WORDS

Moderate

Frequency

Just Low-frequency words

How many words are there, how many do leaners need to know?

Third new vocabulary International Vocabulary267.000Word families

The American Heritage Words Frequency Book88.533 word families

Unknown

vocabulary15.000 to

20.000

words

Dealing with low-frequency vocabulary

• To trainTeacher and

Learner • To deal with

vocabularyStrategies

• Facilitator

High-frequenc

y vocabular

y

Guessing from

context clues,

Using words parts,

Vocabulary cards and dictionary

TESTING VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE

Basis of the

frequency

Important in

learning process

Quick to take, easy to mark

and interpret

References:Nation, I., Long, M., & Richards, J. (2001). The goals of vocabulary learning. Michael H [ed.]; Richards, Jack C [ed.]. Learning vocabulary in another language. New York: Cambridge University Press.