Lets look at how we typically talk about knowing words. The three most common ways (in Western culture at least) are probably: Is this everything that is relevant for digital tools that help with language learning?
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Lets look at how we typically talk about knowing words. The three most common ways (in Western culture at least) are probably: Is this everything that is relevant for digital tools that help with language learning?
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So what does it mean to know a word? Here are a few suggestions. a) understanding its basic meaning (denotation) and also any evaluative or associated meaning it has (connotation). For example cottage and hovel are both types of small houses.
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One of the major ideas explored in this chapter is the relationship and boundaries between learning individual items and learning systems of knowledge. For example, it is possible to learn to recognise the form of a word simply by memorising it.
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There are several principles that relate to knowing a word. 1 Not all aspects of word knowledge are equally important. 2 Word knowledge can be described in terms of breadth (aspects), depth (strength), and fluency. 3 Word knowledge develops over a period of time. 4 Some knowledge is limited to individual words, while other knowledge is systematic.
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To understand a text, learners need to know words, and 'knowing a word involves knowing: its spoken and written contexts of use, its patterns with words of related meaning…' (Carter, 2001:43).
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For form, meaning, and use, Nation (2001) declared there is both a receptive and productive dimension, so knowing these three aspects for each word or phrase actually involves 18 different...
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Fluent native speakers intuitively know how to use a lexical item in the appropriate context. They can even determine meaning of an unfamiliar word when it is written or spoken. However, second language learners may not understand what constitutes knowledge of vocabulary.
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At a fundamental level, knowledge of a word is recognizing it in speech and writing. In other words, being able to identify its form. At a receptive level, this means knowing what the word sounds like and looks like. At a productive level, it means knowing how to pronounce and spell the word.
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Therefore, knowing a word is quite a complex cognitive process, and knowing a word involves understanding many aspects of word knowledge. Nation (2001:23) points out that ‘words are not isolated units of language’.
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Words are not isolated units of the language, but fit into many related systems and levels. Because of this, there are many things to know about any particular word and there are many degrees of knowing.
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