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Although some students seem to pick up English vocabulary easily, the evidence from research is that learning new words and structures of another language requires conscious mental effort.  \nWe also tend to get frustrated because we can’t recall the right words when we need to produce them, even though we are able to recognise the same words when we read or hear them.  \nRecall is influenced by events or processes at various stages of memory. Three stages can conveniently be distinguished: intake, storage and retrieval.  \n(McDonough 1981:66, emphasis added)  \nRetrieval includes both recognition of words when we hear or read them, and recall – the ability to produce appropriate words (often referred to as ‘active vocabulary’) . These stages can be shown in a diagram:  \nIn this unit we will be looking at some practical ways in which what you do can do actively at the intake (learning) stage will lead to more effective storage in long-term memory, and so facilitate recall.  \nOrganising the input  \nIt is well known in psychology that if the material to be memorized is organized in some fashion, people can use this organization to their benefit. This happens because organized material is easier to store in and retrieve from long-term memory.  \n(Thompson, 1987: 46)  \nSo our next Language Learning Principle is:  \nPrinciple 8: Organise  \nTask 6.1  \nDo you organise English vocabulary in any way when you learn it? If so, how?  \n(This is an open question, so see whether you can discuss it with someone else, face to face or on-line) .  \nIt is reasonable to suppose that the way we approach learning new words will affect the way they are stored in our memory. Psychologists have found that we don’t store the vocabulary of our first language as a list of separate items like a dictionary. Instead, we store them in a complex network of associations.  \nSo when you set out to extend your English vocabulary, try to learn words, not individually, but as parts of a framework, or network, of interrelated meanings.  \nThe specific benefits of creating a network are:  \n􀁸 Words are not perceived as separate items, but as members of larger semantic [meaning] networks.  \n􀁸 It activates our store of existing vocabulary, thus encouraging recall.  \n􀁸 Association aids retention.  \n􀁸 We develop a knowledge of the semantic relationships between words and the networks to which these words belong. That allows us to make predictions as we read or listen, which is an important skill.  \n􀁸 A knowledge of the relatedness of words in a language is necessary for fluency in speaking and writing.  \n(Machalias, 1991: 20)  \nThe next three tasks explore practical ways of organising your vocabulary learning to consolidate meaning links.  \nOne relatively simple way of learning vocabulary in fields of meaning is to collect words together under a general heading.  \nTask 6.2: Listing  \nIn the space below, write down as many words as you can think of under the  \nheading STUDY (some examples are given):  \nSTUDY  \nlectures  \nexams  \nresearch  \nlibrary  \nread  \nLists like that are not organised internally. Looking for a creative ways of organising words helps make our learning more focused, more interesting, and therefore probably more effective.  \nTask 6.3: Classifying  \nOn a sheet of paper, group the words you listed in Task 6.2 into categories, according to the criteria you think are appropriate.  \n4  \nTony Lynch and Kenneth Anderson, English Language Teaching Centre, University of Edinburgh 2012  \nThe simple example below shows how word-fields can be organised to show networks of meanings. This is similar to a‘mind-map’ or ‘spidergram’.  \nTask 6.4: Building a network  \nExtend the Research diagram by adding as many words as you can, inappropriate places.  \nSynonyms  \nEnglish words with similar meanings (synonym","cbCaicVDMEEkVObm","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicVDMEEkVObm","pdf",900344,27,"English","# Organising the input\n## Task 6.1 Organise vocabulary\n# Building a word network\n## Task 6.2 Listing\n## Task 6.3 Classifying\n## Task 6.4 Building a network\n# Understanding meaning relationships\n## Task 6.5 Comparing elements of meaning\n## Task 6.6 Practising collocations","[{\"question\":\"Why is learning new English vocabulary described as requiring conscious mental effort?\",\"answer\":\"Research evidence suggests that acquiring new words and language structures needs deliberate mental processing rather than happening automatically.\"},{\"question\":\"What are the three memory stages mentioned for vocabulary learning?\",\"answer\":\"The unit distinguishes intake, storage, and retrieval, showing how learning at the intake stage can support long-term storage and later recall.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the unit recommend learning vocabulary: as individual words or in relationships?\",\"answer\":\"It recommends learning words as parts of a framework or network of interrelated meanings, using semantic relationships to improve recall and fluency.\"}]","Effective English Learning - Unit 6: Vocabulary | PDF",1790595761,68]