Vocabulary Post #2
And now.. Vocabulary Learning 2.0
Since the beginning of our time at the ITAT in Graz, I have already learned a lot of new words. However, there are even more to come - just think of the next English exam in January! For this reason, although having a good basis of vocabulary learning strategies, I should not be satisfied too early with my techniques and should instead always try to improve them. While reading other students’ blog posts on vocabulary learning, as our English teacher advised us to, I discovered some good ideas which I would like to use in the future.
One of the most interesting blog posts on this topic I found on Stefanie’s blog. According to her blog post, when learning a word it can be really helpful to create the most funnies sentence you can imagine with a new word. Before that, I have never done such a thing; however, from the first moment on I could totally agree that her strategy could be useful when having problems remembering a word. If there is a word that you absolutely cannot remember, regardless how hard you try, it could be helpful to study the word in a funny context. Moreover, creating a funny and easy sentence can be a lot more useful than reading and studying complex example sentences out of dictionaries. In general, I really liked that idea of improving my vocabulary and I definitely would like to use it.
Another good learning technique of one of my fellow students was on Alissa’s blog. Her idea was to write down words that are hard to remember on post-its. Since I read it on her blog, I have actually tried it because I wanted to know how this strategy worked for me. While working through the Porter book, I wrote down confusing words and put them in places I often pass by during the day, for example my desk at home, the shelf where I store my books for university, or even the toilets. I found out that this is not only a good, but a wonderful and great idea of really remembering a word. Since I started with this new technique, there is hardly a word that I still cannot remember. I am very glad that I read Alissa’s blog and that I tried her technique.
Moreover, Sophie mentioned in her blog that she uses books with synonyms and antonyms of a word in order to learn the word, for example the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms. Although I already knew before that it is important to study the synonyms and antonyms of a word, I haven’t used a book like this before. I borrowed the book from the library and found out that it can be really useful when I have to write a text for university. With this book by my side, I am able to use a great variety of words and by using them I will remember them for the future. Of course, not all of them, but hopefully quite a few. For this reason, I will probably purchase this book in the near future in order to improve my range of vocabulary even more. Thank you Sophie!
Since the beginning of our time at the ITAT in Graz, I have already learned a lot of new words. However, there are even more to come - just think of the next English exam in January! For this reason, although having a good basis of vocabulary learning strategies, I should not be satisfied too early with my techniques and should instead always try to improve them. While reading other students’ blog posts on vocabulary learning, as our English teacher advised us to, I discovered some good ideas which I would like to use in the future.
One of the most interesting blog posts on this topic I found on Stefanie’s blog. According to her blog post, when learning a word it can be really helpful to create the most funnies sentence you can imagine with a new word. Before that, I have never done such a thing; however, from the first moment on I could totally agree that her strategy could be useful when having problems remembering a word. If there is a word that you absolutely cannot remember, regardless how hard you try, it could be helpful to study the word in a funny context. Moreover, creating a funny and easy sentence can be a lot more useful than reading and studying complex example sentences out of dictionaries. In general, I really liked that idea of improving my vocabulary and I definitely would like to use it.
Another good learning technique of one of my fellow students was on Alissa’s blog. Her idea was to write down words that are hard to remember on post-its. Since I read it on her blog, I have actually tried it because I wanted to know how this strategy worked for me. While working through the Porter book, I wrote down confusing words and put them in places I often pass by during the day, for example my desk at home, the shelf where I store my books for university, or even the toilets. I found out that this is not only a good, but a wonderful and great idea of really remembering a word. Since I started with this new technique, there is hardly a word that I still cannot remember. I am very glad that I read Alissa’s blog and that I tried her technique.
Moreover, Sophie mentioned in her blog that she uses books with synonyms and antonyms of a word in order to learn the word, for example the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms. Although I already knew before that it is important to study the synonyms and antonyms of a word, I haven’t used a book like this before. I borrowed the book from the library and found out that it can be really useful when I have to write a text for university. With this book by my side, I am able to use a great variety of words and by using them I will remember them for the future. Of course, not all of them, but hopefully quite a few. For this reason, I will probably purchase this book in the near future in order to improve my range of vocabulary even more. Thank you Sophie!
Kommentare
Kommentar veröffentlichen