Wednesday, April 4th 2018.

WEEK: 11

RANK: 3

Based on the article "Online English-English Learner Dictionaries Boost Word Learning" by Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov.

WORDS CLASSIFICATION 

When you start learning a new language vocabulary is extremely necessary because how can you communicate without learning vocabulary? You might know grammar structures and different things but vocabulary is really important. In this article Ulugbek Nurmukhamedov shows us some ways to classify the words, and I think is helpful because sometimes we want to learn more vocabulary, but probably we do not do it in the best way. The article presents six features in which we can classify words. The first one is called Corpus Based. In simple words this feature consists in real world definitions. You can practice this feature with your students or you as teacher, an easy activity can be find at least three words and search the definitions. It is important that you try to learn a real quantity, not more than ten because it can be difficult, and later you will not remember. The second is called Word Frequency. This can be defined as how frequently is used a word; high frequency or low frequency. You can create a chart with these categories, in order to know the most common vocabulary. The third one is Collocations. I would say that collocations are words that are most of the time together and they cannot be with another word. For example, "do an appointment" or "make an appointment", "do homework" or "make homework"as a English beginner, it is completely normal to have problems with collocations, but it would be better if students start learning about this since the very beginning. The two last features are Authentic Examples and Topical Vocabulary. The first one is about how you can find the words in different phrases, and the other one is about words that can be related to a specific topic. In conclusion, vocabulary learning would be easier if students start learning these different categories or features, I think is easier to classify words by their different features than only learn words and definitions.