565. Just study


One day teacher of English A said to teacher of English B, “My students utilize different strategies to learn new words. They notice the resemblance with a French or German word they already know. Or with a Spanish word, and they focus on the similarities and differences, and the root-origin, either Latin or Germanic.

They use the word in the next opportunities they will find to express some specific message. So, I mean, they use the words.

Some of them write lists and revise them from time to time.

If they are teachers themselves they use the word in the following class, because it fits well then.

Some write a word several times, focusing on the sequence of letters.

Some compare the spelling with the pronunciation.

Some make mental and visual linkages with the word, or write cards and shuffle them.

Some learn a few words every day, not many.

Some read common everyday language in the Web, so as to learn language a native speaker would use. They gain and expand their memory with precisely the habit of learning new words.

Some just study a piece of the dictionary every day, or a text every day. For example some focus on learning new phrasal verbs, and comparing the meanings of the prepositions or adverbs, subsequent to the verb, with the ones collocated to other verbs, and draw certain theory.” / Photo from: education uoregon edu

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