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How words are learned words - Coggle Diagram
How words are learned 
What kind of mistakes do learners make
Form-related. This ones include mis-selections, misformations, and spelling and pronunciation errors
meaning-related: This ones typically occur when words that have similar or related meanings are confused and the wrong choice is made
How many words does a learner need to know
It depends on a large extent of the learner's needs, but it is ofthen quoted 2000, as is the around number of words that most native speakers use in a daily conversation, and the average number in general
How are words remembered
Wroking memory: Focussing on words long enough yo perform operations on them. Information is first placed, studied and moved about before being filed away for later retrival
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Shor-term store: It's the brain's capacity to hold a limited number of items of information for periods of time up to a few seconds
How is our knowledge organised
The mind seems to store words neither randomly nor in the form of a list, but in a highly organised and interconnected fashion (mental lexicon)
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In order to economise on processing time, several pathways will beactivated simultaneously, fanning out across the network in a process called 'spreading activation'
Why do we forget words
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What makes a word difficult
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What are the implications for teaching
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Teaching should direct attention to the sound of new words, particularly the way they're stressed
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What does it mean 'to know a word'
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It also means knowing the words commonly associated with it (its collocation) as well as connotation, including registers and its cultural acretions
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How is vocabulary learned
When it comes to first language, the first words are typically those used for labelling (mapping words on to concepts)
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Using network building, serves to link all the labels and packages, and lays the groundwork for a process that continues for as long as we are exposed to new words
Second language vocabulary, involves both: learning a new conceptual system that these words encode and the complex network (a second mental lexicon)
How important is vocabulary
The effect of some developments such as lexical syllabus, lexical chunks and corpus linguistics have been to raise awareness as to the key role vocabulary development plays in language learning.
It provides more communicative mileage than grammar and vocabulary has been recognized mostly by tourists