Reading and listening Developing Vocabulary

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3.4 Developing Vocabulary

This section will describe four ways of developing your word power. They are reading and listening, vocabulary study book, idiom and making a new word active. You should keep in mind from the start; however, that none of the approaches will help unless you truly decide that vocabulary development is an important goal.

3.4.1 Reading and listening

Reading and listening can be done as hobbies. we can read interesting books and listen to the music and speaking in English to improve our vocabulary. Reading Learning by reading English will certainly help ours self in learning English vocabulary not only study with the book’s vocabulary. When we are reading, we have just heard some new words. Moreover, we do not know the meaning of word. When you have finished reading, look back what you have read, afterwards write down the new word or expression that interest you. Before you ask its meaning, decide first what part of speech word is and then look for clues in its context or form. If it cannot help you, you can go to a dictionary. Through reading a good deal, we will learn word by encountering them a number of times in variety of sentences. We should develop the habit a daily newspaper and one or more weekly magazines. In addition, we should try to read Syaidati Ifdari : A Brief Description Of How To Enrich And Use Learner’s English Vocabulary, 2009. USU Repository © 2009 some book for pleasure. Doing so, you may eventually reap the rewards of an improved vocabulary and discover that reading can be truly enjoyable. On book’s title is “ENRICH OUR VOCABULARY THROUGH READING AND IDIOM” Pora, 2002:10 tell about the simply effort to improve our ability in reading. Here some ways of improving reading are: a. Read as mush as possible There is a very beautiful proverb tell that success today would lose tomorrow if stopping read. Reading by many topics will help to add insight and also vocabulary. More and more your vocabulary, more easy you read reading well and exactly. Moreover, you do not one only reading, but also the another one. b. Read a challenge reading You should not always read an easy reading but look for difficult enough subject, so if you have mastered it, of course the subject easy reading could handle. c. Read critically There is a proverb again tell that to read only give insight material for you. Think so that the reading becomes our own John locke. Yes all right, think what b you are reading, ask to yourself about what the reading subject are you reading? and how the writer defend him ideas. Listening Listening is different from reading. Listening can introduce words in our ears. If we never hear words in conversation’s native English speaker, although we know the word in reading matter, it means we also know when we are hearing them. Listening can help to improve our English in pronunciation. Similarly with reading, when we listen to English do not panic when we hear some or expressions that we do not know. Keeping listening and the overall meaning will often become clear. Syaidati Ifdari : A Brief Description Of How To Enrich And Use Learner’s English Vocabulary, 2009. USU Repository © 2009

3.4.2. Vocabulary study book