The motivation of learning vocabularies is to understand what people mean and to express ourselves fluently and clearly.In the first part I would like to talk about how to understand vocabularies well.
What I am going to cover is based on the premise that understanding English essays or conversations is a period of integrating words and their meanings to comprehend what we see or hear.
There are mainly two senses functioning when we need to understand essays and conversations in English:The sense of sight and hearing.(am I being too formal? If so, please laugh!)
When we read in English, eliminating the possibility of guessing the meaning of a new word according the context, we realize the meaning of each word by seeing the structure of them.That requires us to develop the links between sense of sight and the memory of their usages in advance and of course memorize them.Or else,we are just watching 26 symbols lining in a long queue randomly.
When we listen in English, we realize the meaning of each word by hearing the pronunciation of them, which requires us to develop the links between sense of
hearing and the memory of their usages in advance and memorize them too.
It ever happened to me that sometimes I talked to people in English, I could not understand a word used in the conversation unless I picked it out and imagined the structure of it in my mind.I then realized maybe it is because I had only formed a link between sight and usage rather than between hearing and usage.
How could this happen? I guess one reason is that as I grew older and older, I preferred to memorize new words by reading rather than speak it out to hear my own voice pronounce each of them.It resulted in the fact that for some of the words, my links between sight and thoughts was stronger or at least functioned faster than the links between hearing and thoughts.
So I guess improving your listening skills is quite important in our vocabulary and English study. Otherwise, we would be a giant in reading but a short in conversation.
-Liu Yifei
-17,01,2012
Good reflection, Yifei !
ReplyDeleteThank you Ms.Somali! I will try as often as possible!
Deleteit is a really true ,and your speaking and read are very good ,you set an example to me ,thanks very much ,following you!!
ReplyDeletewilling to improve with you!
DeleteListening skills should be very important for conversation, especially for understanding strange accent!
ReplyDeletethat is true! may we all adapt to this!
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