1755. A Refreshing View of Learning New Words

Now I’m giving you more learning strategies for learning vocabulary. 

First I will say that I’ve learned a lot about learning strategies in Rebecca Oxford’s book about them, published in 1990. 

More strategies that I have learned from my students or strategies I’ve utilized myself: make up a group of words of the same semantic field; 

focus on the spelling and take a mental “picture” of a difficult word; 

think or write sentences by using those words; 

focus on those terms that have a Latin origin and so they may be similar to the ones in their mother tongue (our language is Spanish, whose origin is Latin); 

write the same difficult word several times; 

or repeat mentally; 

play with the new words in some way, like scribbling them; 

play with the sentences I wrote with that word; 

write very original or fantastic sentences with those new words; 

every day learn one, or two, or three, which demands self-discipline; 

just revise them; 

ask myself from their corresponding words in my L1 (mother language). 

All this can be done within someone’s personal study or all the class with the teacher. / Photo from: orange juice. quedificiles wordpress com