C) ex-ses for improvement of Voc. habits

Selection of minimum Voc. Methodological typology of Voc.

Aims and tasks of teaching Vocabulary. Interrelation of vocabulary and other aspects of the target language.

Teaching Vocabulary

Outline

3. How to teach Voc.:

a) ways and techniques of presenting a new word and conveying its meaning;

b) drill exercise for teaching active Voc.;

The main practical aim of T.Voc in a secondary school is to form the pupils’ Voc. habits as a basic component of all the language activities.

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Vocabulary work is inseparably connected with all the other aspects of the target language:

a) With pronunciation: lexical meaning are expressed with the help of phonic means of a language: -short and long vowels (fill-feel, knit-neat)

-open and close vowels (beg-bag)

-voiceless and voiced consonants (lad-let)

b) With morphology:

c) With syntax,

d) With spelling: fair tale – fare tail;

e) With stylistics: father, pa, daddy, pop, oldman.

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By vocabulary habits we mean the ability:

• To transfer of a word from distant memory to immediate memory;
• To check the correctness of selection of a particular word in the given situation;
• To instantly evaluate combinability of the word chosen with other vocabulary items;
• To quickly choose the proper paradigmatic form of the word suitable for a particular structure

By methodological typology of the language material we mean distribution of lexical units into groups in accordance with the degree of their complexity for assimilation.

Different approaches to recognition of lexical (vocabulary) complexity:

taking into account qualitative characteristics of words, that is formal, functional and semantic peculiarities of a particular word and complexity of its assimilation under the condition of contact between two languages.

taking into account quantitative characteristics of words which imply wide use of words as well as their length which is measured in the number of letters or syllables.

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The basic principles of selection of the active minimum Voc.:

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