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Aspects of Learning A New Word - PPP

1. The document outlines various aspects of vocabulary that need to be taught to language learners, including form, grammar, collocation, meaning, and word formation. 2. Some common problems learners face include misunderstanding a word's meaning based on context, not knowing the grammatical characteristics or appropriate usage of a word, and confusing words that sound or look similar but have different meanings. 3. Key aspects that need explicit instruction are pronunciation, spelling, relationships with other words through synonyms, antonyms, families and affixes, appropriate context, connotations, collocations, idioms, and varieties of English.

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Aspects of Learning A New Word - PPP

1. The document outlines various aspects of vocabulary that need to be taught to language learners, including form, grammar, collocation, meaning, and word formation. 2. Some common problems learners face include misunderstanding a word's meaning based on context, not knowing the grammatical characteristics or appropriate usage of a word, and confusing words that sound or look similar but have different meanings. 3. Key aspects that need explicit instruction are pronunciation, spelling, relationships with other words through synonyms, antonyms, families and affixes, appropriate context, connotations, collocations, idioms, and varieties of English.

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ASPECTS OF LEARNING

LEXICAL ITEMS
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Outcomes
1. Identify what aspects of lexis needs to be taught:
Form: pronunciation and spelling
Grammar
Collocation
Aspects of meaning
Meaning of relationships
Word formation

2. Identify some problems learners have when


learning new words
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What does the word "fair" mean in the
following sentences? How do we know?

1. She used to 2. It was a fair 3. The weather


have dark hair, decision, and was fair, so we
but she has fair so everyone decided to go
hair now accepted it. for a walk.

4. We still have a 5. They went to an


fair way to go. I antiques fair at the
think we'll be there weekend.
this evening.
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Look at the use of ‘fair’ in the following
expressions. How do we know the meaning of
'fair" in these expressions?

1. to have a fair crack of the whip


2. to be fair game
3. to win fair and square
4. fair to middling.

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Write down
three things,
learners need to
know when they
learn a new
word in English.

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What Needs to be Taught?
1. Form: pronunciation & spelling
2. Grammar
3. Collocation
4. Aspects of Meaning
Denotations, connotations, appropriateness
Meaning Relationships
5. Word Formation; affixation- compound
words
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What Needs to be Taught?
Form
Pronunciation & Spelling

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What Needs to be Taught?
Grammar
Examples:
1. Think- thought
2. Mouse- mice
3. Advice- information ( piece of advice)
4. Want- enjoy (want to- enjoying)
5. Responsible- remind (responsible for –
remind someone of)
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Can you think of 2
examples of
vocabulary items
whose grammatical
characteristics are not
obvious, and which
you would therefore
need to teach when
introduce this item?

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What Needs to be Taught?
Aspects of Meaning
1. Denotation
The definition given in a dictionary.
2. Connotation
The associations or positive or negative feelings a
word evokes
Dog ---- moist / dank
3. Appropriateness
Whether a particular item is the appropriate one to
use in a certain context
Cry ---- Weep
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How would you present the
meaning of the words?
1. Swim
2. Childish
3. Kid
4. Guy

For which would you


mention their connotations?
And their appropriate
contexts?
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What Needs to be Taught?
Word form

Affixation & Compound words


Unsafe, illegal, telephone number, bookshop

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What Needs to be Taught?
Collocation
Words that often occur together: Idioms (fixed
Expressions) - Chunks (semi-fixed expressions)
Collocations: To take a holiday, heavy rain,
arrive at
Idioms: To tell you the truth, it’s up to you
Chunks: Have a good trip, I’d like to .., how
about …

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What Needs to be Taught?
DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIPS
Synonyms: neat – tidy
Antonyms: old- young
Word Family: words that belong to the same
topic (Family, furniture, food) – words that
come from the same base word (real, realistic,
really, unreal)

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What Needs to be Taught?
DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP
Homophones
(words with the same pronunciation but different
meaning or spelling): know-no, whether – weather-
there, their

Homonyms
(words with the same spelling & pronunciation as
another word, but a different meaning): they sat on the
river bank, he put all his savings in the bank

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What Needs to be Taught?
DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP

False friends
(words that have the same or similar form in two
languages but a different meaning)

Varieties of English
(different kind of English spoken around the world)

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Some problems with learning vocabulary

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What is the problem?
1. I never watch TV because there’s too much
publicity in the middle of programmes.
2. It’s highly unprobable that he’ll pass the
exam.
3. The promise of promotion was a very tough
incentive to stay in my current job.
4. The craftsmanship in this oak chair is
extraordinarily fine and to die for.
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