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| What are the word parts in English ? |
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| (stem (bound or free) and affix (prefix and suffix)) |
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| What function can an affix take be a word ? (derivational, inflectional) |
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| derivational , inflectional |
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| Name several reason why teaching word parts |
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the main reason: knowing the 2000 frequent families is important, so recognizing members with affixes is critical= for each base form, there are between 1.5 and 4 family members
others: it is a way in which a learner’s vocabulary increases, they can work as mnemonic, they can make abstract words seem more concrete and easier to learn, there is a relationship between voc size and the number of affixes known |
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| In order to qualify an affix ‘’useful’’, what aspects to look at ? |
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| frequency, regularity, productivity, predictability |
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Term
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| teach the more frequent/regular/productive/predictable first, and then go on with the less frequent and learn 20 or more words made with the affix |
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| Word part activities should be used with low-frequency or high-freq words and why? |
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| Low-frequency because we compute high-freq words as a whole whereas it seems that we recompose low-freq words from its parts each time |
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| What type of dictionary does Nation recommend learners to use |
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Definition
| bilinguals along with monolinguals because they complement each other |
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| Why dictionary are useful while reading |
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Definition
| better retention, make an implicit reading task explicit by focusing on words |
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| Horst, Cobb & Nicolae (2005) |
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Definition
| Expanding Academic Vocabulary with an Inter-Active On-Line Database |
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| Findings from Horst, Cobb & Nicolae to RQ : To what extent did learners increase their knowledge of vocabulary targeted for study in the experimental course? |
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| they learned more the words they entered on the database then the one un-entered |
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Term
| Which strategies are promoted by Group Lex |
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Definition
Dictionary use
Concordancing
Self quizzing
Cloze builder
Hypertext reading |
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Term
| Some reasons to promote concordancing activities |
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Definition
uses real context, authentic texts
provides rich info, grammar, collocation
promotes learner autonomy and discovery learning
requires active processing
lead to more flexible word use and better retention than just stufying definition |
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