Learning vocabulary is the first step in learning a foreign language and it is (or it should be) a process that takes place daily and most of the time not at school but at home. Here are my seven tips that will help you be more effective when learning vocabulary. All of the tips are based on my own experience as a learner of English.
Learner characteristics refers to differences between learners, differences that have an influence over their attitude to learning a language and the way they learn it. Different teachers have different teaching styles and use different approaches in the classroom. Different learners have different characteristics and they respond differently to these different teaching styles and approaches.
Few days ago, browsing the net, I learned something interesting. There are software called “text readers” (or as they are also known, “text-to-speech programs”). I have never heard about something like that before so I checked it out. I typed “text reader” in the Google’s search box and visited the first website shown on the search result’s page, http://www.naturalreaders.com/.
Pronouncing the suffixes (also known as word endings) -s and -ed are usually a big problem for learners of English, particularly for Vietnamese (and probably other Asians). Using and pronouncing them don’t make sense for Vietnamese learners since their language doesn’t use such features. Here you have a short simple guide on pronunciation of the -s and -ed suffixes.
How many times have you said: “On Monday I will start studying English”? How many times have you planned to pay more attention to English? I am sure many times. Maybe you have spent a lot of time going to school but you are still not able to speak English. You learned a lot of vocabulary but now you just remember a small part of it. You have been studying English for ten years now but you can’t understand a word when you are watching an American movie. Sounds familiar?!
Some people have difficult time learning English. They learn hard but something doesn’t allow them to get fluent in English and they don’t know what that is. I have been learning Vietnamese for pretty long time and I am still not fluent but I know why. There are many reasons to fail at getting fluent in English but four of them are always invoked by learners of English.
Learners of English tend to think in their mother language first and then translate everything into English. Sometimes, English language doesn’t seem to be very logical, at least in learners of ESL/EFL eyes because they always compare English with their mother tongue. Below are the most common mistakes made by learners of English.
If you want to believe that then you can find many reasons to sustain this affirmation and if the idea of English being a difficult language to learn is well cemented in your brain then probably you will never be able to learn and master it as you would like. Below you can see why I think English is difficult to learn.
These five tables make any learner of English to understand how dates are used in English language (with phonemic transcription). Since there is more than one way to express dates in English, it is not a surprise that this topic creates confusion among learners of English.
The automate goal of each learner is to be able to read, listen, speak, and write English. What do you need for that? You need: motivation, a good starting point, be familiar with the sound of English, and learn vocabulary as it is described in this article. This guide shows you everything you need to learn vocabulary.