学习策略与词汇记忆(课件)

1、Dating vocabulary,how to make friends with those words in your textbook,Beijing Normal University English Major Hu Chuan,Your target: the contents of a word,Take the word “child” for example: First, take out a piece of paper; Then, write down at least three things that can describe the feature of a

2、word “child” from at least three dimension, or write down three things you will memorize about the word “child”; You may discuss with your neighbor.,The contents of a word,Spelling (orthography) Phonetic representation (pronunciation, syllabification, and stress) Morphological irregularity Syntactic

3、 features and restrictions (parts of speech) Common derivations and collocations (i.e., words with which it co-occurs) Semantic features and restrictions Pragmatic features and restrictions.,The contents of “child”,Spelling: c-h-i-l-d Phonetic rep: /tald/ Morphological irregularity: children (not ge

4、nerated by forming regular plurals in English) Syntactic features: noun and it is countable; Common derivatives: childlike, childish, childhood; Common collocations: childs play, child labor, and child psychology. Semantic features: The concept of a human and is neutral regarding gender distinction.

5、 It would contrast with the term child with similar terms for younger humans such as infant and baby and it would also contrast older humans such as adolescent and adult. Pragmatic features you would be able to contrast child with other words with the same meaning for example, kid. .,The contents of

6、 “child”,“To truly know a word means to know both how it differs from and how it is similar to others. Pragmatic information is useful when we try to be sensitive to the appropriateness of the register of our lexical choices. It also helps us in the realm of usage to identify patterns of words that

7、collocate, or go together.” (Cecle-Murcia Second: take advantage of your memory patterns and take corresponding strategies to make friends with those words in your textbook; (please keep in mind the two interactive ways of top-bottom strategies) Third: overlearn and keep practice. PS: Personally, the most important thing is to make your learning meaningful. Treat those words as your real friends