How to Remember Vocabulary

CONTENTS
1. Be Aware of word.
2. Read, listen and watch as much as you can.
3. Use a dictionary
4. Learn roots, prefixes and suffixes; synonyms and antonyms.
5. Make the most of your dictionary.
6. Revise and practice with the new words.

REFERENCES 1. English vocabulary in use by Michael McCarthy Felicity O’Dell, Cambridge University Press. 2. Language Activities for Teenagers, edited by Seth Lindstromberg. 3. Essential practice for building vocabulary for the TOEFL by Milada Broukal. 4. Dictionaries by Jon Wright, Oxford University Press 5. The Little, Brown Handbook by H. Ramsay Fowler and Jane E. Aaron, & Kay Limburg. 6th ed. HarperCollins: New York. 1995. By permission of Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc. 6. How to teach vocabulary by Scott Thornbury.

INTRODUCTION

Vygotsky said: “A word is a microcosm of human consciousness”. “Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.” This is how the linguist David Wilkins summed up the important of vocabulary learning. His view is echoed in this advice to students from a recent course book (Dellar H and Hocking D, Innovations, LTP). “If you spend most your time studying grammar, your English is not improve very much. You will see most improvement if you learn more words and expressions. You can say very little with grammar, but you can say almost anything with words!” Most learners, too, acknowledge the importance of vocabulary acquisition. Here are some statements made by learners, in answer the question How would you like to improve your English?
• Oral is my weakness and I can’t speak a fluently sentence in English. Sometimes, I am lack of useful vocabularies to express my opinions.
• My problem is that I forget the words soon after I have looked in the