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THE GOALS OF VOCABULARY LEARNING
PRESENTED BY:*Diego Castañeda
*Laura García*Julián Hernández*Carolina Loaiza
*Sebastián Rueda
2016
The goals of vocabulary
learning
How much vocabulary do learners need
to know?
How many words are
there in the language?
Tokens Types
Lemmas Word Families
How many words do native speakers know?
How much vocabulary do you need to use another language?
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Kinds of vocabulary
Technical words
Academic words
High-frecuency words
Low-frequency words
First Step
Basic Vocabulary
All kind of uses
Low-frequency words
Some high frecuency words ( in general)
Specialised vocabulary
High-frequency
words
Coverage of texts
Special purposes
Speaking Special vocabularies
Reading academic texts
Reading newspapers
Children’s stories
Kinds of words…
• Common data among subjects.
• Common writing pattern.Academic
• Do not occur in other subject areas.
• Specific purpose.Technical
How large are they?
What to do with
specialized vocabulary?
LOW-FREQUENCY WORDS
Moderate
Frequency
Just Low-frequency words
How many words are there, how many do leaners need to know?
Third new vocabulary International Vocabulary267.000Word families
The American Heritage Words Frequency Book88.533 word families
Unknown
vocabulary15.000 to
20.000
words
Dealing with low-frequency vocabulary
• To trainTeacher and
Learner • To deal with
vocabularyStrategies
• Facilitator
High-frequenc
y vocabular
y
Guessing from
context clues,
Using words parts,
Vocabulary cards and dictionary
TESTING VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE
Basis of the
frequency
Important in
learning process
Quick to take, easy to mark
and interpret
References:Nation, I., Long, M., & Richards, J. (2001). The goals of vocabulary learning. Michael H [ed.]; Richards, Jack C [ed.]. Learning vocabulary in another language. New York: Cambridge University Press.