Practical Means of Vocabulary Learning With a Focus on the Four Skills
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There are various criteria to be considered by the teacher for vocabulary learning to occur. This paper will examine them. Students acquire vocabulary by different means of input, and to a lesser degree, output. The major source of input is reading, and it includes both ‘guessing from context’ and the use of graded readers. This paper will also consider other factors in vocabulary acquisition, such as: speaking, writing, listening, motivation, categories of vocabulary, vocabulary testing, types of tests, and actual word knowledge.
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