Active v. Passive

Active words are words that you use. There are less active words compared to passive words.
Passive words are words that you understand, but doesn't use. There are many passive words. Passive words are words you learn by listening/reading, and Active words are words that you learn by writing/speaking.

Mari

Vocabulary Strategies★

There are totally four major vocabulary strategies for students to get worked on as they can be able to have confidence and ease. To be a successful reader, students need to guess the meaning of words that are unknown from context cludes.However guessing might be slow and difficult at first, the goal of doing this is to reach a level of skill where guessing corresponds to what actually meant in the text. What you want to do next is making your original word cards about 1.5 inches by 1.2 inches, because learning from word cards strategy is the first meeting with the words and you will bw able to read and write naturally and successfully as you work on it. As English words are mixed with parts that are very useful to use as a kind of mnemonic and keyword technique when have unknown words, using word parts is effective way of learning neew vocabulary. While the guessing the meaning from a given context is one that provide access to the meaning, using a dictionary helps students to aquire new vocabulary.



Maiko Osawa

How many words and which ones we need to learn

There are milions of words in English.
So, effective strategy is require.
We need to learn the 3,000 most flequent words first.

the most common words cover wide range of sentences.
2,000words=80~87%
3,000words=90~95%
Low frequency=2%

If we know these 3,000words completely, rest of words in the article can be guess by meaning.

Then, students should learn the word they're interested in.
For example, university students must know academic words, Caleb needs to get many words of baby and so on.

05AA020 Narumi Ota