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through practice and not by just memorizing rules. The person who have learnt a foreign or second language through this method find it difficult to give up the
habit of first thinking in their mother tongue and then translating their ideas into the second language. They, therefore, fail to get proficiency in the second
language approximating that in the first language. The method, therefore, suffers from certain weakness of which there is no remedy
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3. Vocabulary
Before discussing vocabulary use, first of all we should know the meaning of it. Vocabulary is total number of words which with rules for combining them
make up a language, or range of words known to, or used by, a person, in trade, profession, etc
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. The word “use” has a meaning as the function or the advantage. So we can
say that from the definition-above the vocabulary use is the function or the use of words which are used in language. It means that when we use words, we should
know the function or the use of our words our vocabularies because it can guide us in understating the language which we learn.
Moreover, vocabulary is central to both the system and the use of language. The words that we pronounce write and organize into sentences and
other grammatical combinations. Words are also, what ordinary users think of as language. For, they are accessible and reflected more fully the whole culture and
respond more quickly to changes in society than do other aspects of language
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. Mastering vocabulary is the ability to get or and to receive lots of words.
By having and mastering vocabulary, we will know the meaning of vocabulary in the context. It can also help to avoid making the mistakes in identifying a
language with the dictionary and guide us in making the equivalence of the second language to the native language.
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Hornby, Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary., p. 1959
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Here is some of the vocabulary use:
a. Helping us master kinds or levels of meaning
In mastering the kinds or levels of meaning such as the words with their lexical meaning are, they are by no means the only essential meanings in the
symbols and devices of a language and also the lexical content of the various words-
the words as listed and defined in a dictionary. In the sentence “The old man killed the little bear”, the dictionary does tell us the kind of beings to which
the words man and bear refer it will explain the particular type of action for which the word will is a symbol. And it will give us some notion of the qualities
included in the meanings of such words as old and little. This is however practically all the help the dictionary can give. It does not tell us whether old is to
be taken as a characteristic of the man or of the bear; or whether the bear or the man or both are little. The dictionary cannot tell us whether, in this particular
sentence, the man bear performed the action. So the syntactical, the positions in which old and little stand in relation to man and bear give us the essential meaning
that it is the man that is old and bear that is little. The fact that the old man precedes the word killed and that the little bear follows that word. Killed conveys
the meaning that the man Rather than hear performed the action. Here, syntactical meaning absolutely essential to any understanding of the utterance expressed by
the word order. Morphological meaning or the forms of the words. The form of the word
man in contrast with men and the form of the word bear in contrast with bears signals the feet that there was but one man and but one bear. In similar fashion the
form of the word killed indicates the fact that the action has already occurred. It is not now in process nor projected for the future.
b. Developing Reading Skill
The reading action of each book contains materials on techniques of reading and studying, as well as on such skills as test taking and reasoning. Major
emphasis is placed on the vocabulary development. Use of the dictionary, use of context as a clue the meaning, and the analysis of words through the study of
