Week 8

Reading strategies for acquisition of new vocabulary

Kenia Verónica Menjivar Palencia

Articles: Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning and Using Technology to Assist in Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Comprehension.

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The articles from this week had very important information about vocabulary acquisition for new learners. Something that caught my attention was the information about dictionaries, how many dictionaries there are and how to take advantage of them. Dictionaries help students to acquire the language with the meaning of words. When we look for a meaning of a word we should for the best explanation, the article mentioned some dictionaries that can be used for the better acquisition of the meanings. What made me read more about was also how important is that as teachers we should encourage students to use the new vocabulary in context, if they look for the meaning but the teacher does not ask them to use in context the knowledge about the words will be forget easily.

what I liked about the second reading was that talked about the importance on reading for the acquisition of a foreign language the most students read the most vocabulary they get there is not point to ask students for looking new words at a dictionary just to know the meaning but they do not see it in context. With the reading that look out how can be use and how they can apply it to a conversation or writing task. Personally I thing that the best way of learn new vocabulary is reading if teachers provided some readings for students in which they can get vocabulary that maybe they never looked for in a dictionary will help to get better the new language.