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Arek Peryt
FIGHTING THE LOSING BATTLE?LEARNING VOCABULARY IN NON-ENGLISH
SPEAKING COUNTRY
When students travel they don’t carry grammar books,
they carry dictionaries
Stephen Krashen
Gu, P. Y. (2003). Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language:
Person, Task, Context and Strategies.
Forgetting mostly occurs immediately after we first learn something, and that the rate of forgetting slows down afterward
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Vocabulary
Receptive Productive
Productive vocabulary is a set of lexis that is recognised in both oral and written form and understood immediately as well as a student can retrieve and produce it at will in a suitable context
“Working with words”- Gairns, Redman, CUP
What do we need to acquire productive vocabulary?
Importance
meaningful presentation
meaningful repetition
Spaced intervals
first heard
Learners who know the most frequent 2,000 words should be able to understand almost 80 percent of the words in an average text.(Francis and Kucera 1982). For spoken language, the news is even better since about 1,800 words make up over 80 percent of the spoken corpus
(McCarthy 2004; Teaching Vocabulary O’Keeffe, McCarthy, and Carter 2007)- “Teaching Vocabulary” J.McCarten, CUP
What level student would be expected
to understand and produce 80% of English language?
GE 7GE1 to GE7 315 classes
1900:315=6
6 words per class
Different research suggest that an average student needs between 5 to 12 encounters with an item of lexis to know it in a productive way
The reality is that my students have contact
with English only in the classroom.
“The brain book” Russel claims that we forget
80% within the first 24 hoursHe insists on the first repetition within that period.
Then after 2, 4, 7, 12 20 days and a month 3 month 6months 1 year
The reality of our classes is different.
Typical course
Monday Wednesday Friday
First class with new 6 words and a
repetition at the end of the class!Then a warm-up activity at the
beginning of the next class then a class of interval (without recycling),
then 2 classes of interval, 4 classes and 7 classes
From 7th class 6 new lexis and 18 to revise
In 2 hours is it possible to meaningfully present 6 new lexis and meaningfully recycle 18 old ones?
And what about grammar, listening and writing?