The
most important deliberate
learning activity is using word cards (see Activity 5.1). You need to take control
of this very effective activity and keep using it to learn new vocabulary and even
more importantly to keep revising previously met vocabulary. You may find that
some teachers advise against using this strategy largely because of the belief that all
vocabulary learning needs to occur in context.
They are wrong. It is important that there
is vocabulary learning in context through meaning-focused input, meaning-focused
output, and fluency development,
but it is also important that there is deliberate
decontextualised learning through the use of word cards, because such learning is
very efficient and effective. Some people also believe that because word card learning
involves first language translation, it encourages thinking in the first language rather
than the foreign language.
Research however has shown that in the beginning
and intermediate stages of language learning the
first and foreign languages are
unavoidably stored together. Using
bilingual word cards is a very effective deliberate
learning strategy that you should use.
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