Syaidati Ifdari : A Brief Description Of How To Enrich And Use Learner’s English Vocabulary, 2009. USU Repository © 2009
CHAPTER III THE WAYS OF ENRICHING LEARNER’S ENGLISH VOCABULARY
3.1 Making Plans for Vocabulary Learning
First of all if we want to do something, of course, we have planned firstly about the planning. Besides, we learn grammar or structure an English language,
and we enrich our vocabulary. Do you learn English only to pass examination? In addition, what do you want to hope better than only to pass examination? The
writer sure that all of us do not only want to pass examination, but we want to improve our knowledge about English and improve our skill to use it as a means
of communication. How are we going to plan our vocabulary learning? We will think how to
attend words in our mind every day, week, or month. Any question to make planning in learning vocabulary. Here are some of the questions:
1. How many words and expressions do you intend to lean each week? a 5
b 10 c 15
d more than 15 2. Where and when are you going to learn them?
a in school b in bed
c at leisure time d other
3. How often are you going to revise your vocabulary? a Once a week
b once a month c once a year
d other Perhaps, the questions can help us to make planning in learning
vocabulary. Besides that, we can do our plans in enriching vocabulary through: 1. reading and listening to English
Syaidati Ifdari : A Brief Description Of How To Enrich And Use Learner’s English Vocabulary, 2009. USU Repository © 2009
2. learning idiom 3. making group with our friends that is called English club
4. card method 5. etc
After you make planning in learning vocabulary, you must do it like what you plan so that your effort can be successful and perfect. Clearly making plan in
learning to enrich vocabulary is the first step toward success and master English.
3.2 Learning Vocabulary-General Advice
When we are studying English, we research many source to add our knowledge in English. We read many books about English to know so much about
English. It is the same thing as when we are learning English vocabulary. We read books about how to improve our vocabulary. In the books, we can read the words.
We can also know how many words that we have because the exercise can test our vocabulary. It is a lesson. There are many ways of learning vocabulary; we can
memorize the words in our mind every day. We can do it anywhere in school on the road, at home, in the library. May be in the library is a place where we learn
seriously. We can learn them whenever and wherever if we open our mind to get information everything at the entire place. The information becomes knowledge
for all of us. On this occasion, we do not only learn to memorize many words in our
mind, but also we learn to understand the meaning of word and how to ways of using them. We must know parts of speech, pronunciation of the words that we
Syaidati Ifdari : A Brief Description Of How To Enrich And Use Learner’s English Vocabulary, 2009. USU Repository © 2009
are studying. There are some ways to know a new word according to Mccarthy and O’Dell 1994:2, they are:
• It is not enough just to know the meaning of a word. You also need to know:
a What words it is usually associated with b Whether it has any particular grammatical characteristics
c How it is pronounced
• Try to learn new words not only in isolation but also in phrases. • Write down adjective together with nouns they are often associated with
and vice versa, e.g. royal family; rich vocabulary • Write down nouns in phrases, e.g. in contact with; a train set; shades of
opinion. • Write down words with their preposition, e.g. at a high level; thanks to
your help. • Note any grammatical characteristics of the words you are studying. For
example, note when a verb is irregular and when a noun is uncountable or is only used in the plural.
• Make a note of any special pronunciation problem with the words you are learning.
We can also learn vocabulary by reading or listening to English, talking to native speakers in English. They are good and useful advice to increase our
vocabulary. The important thing is you can understand the meanings of the words simply when you read and hear them.
3.3 Organizing a Vocabulary
