Как быстро и эффективно увеличить словарный запас при изучении английского языка

Деловой портал  www.delo.ua  совместно с British Council запускает новый проект « Английский язык on-line ». В рамках проекта на портале будет появляться видеоинтервью с преподавателями British Council.

Тематика видеоинтервью – новые методики и подходы в изучении английского языка, интересные факты и практические советы по улучшению произношения и увеличения словарного запаса.

Тема интервью –  методики изучения новых слов в английском языке. Интервью дает преподаватель British Council Даниель Пуццо (Daniel Puzzo). Он обращает внимание на несколько важных моментов. Во-первых, не нужно паниковать. Нужно быть терпеливым и постепенно запоминать новые слова.

Одна из самых эффективных методик – построение «карты» использования слова. Не достаточно просто записать слово в тетрадку с переводом. Нужно продумать, в каких ситуациях можно это слово использовать, какие оно имеет синонимы/антонимы.

Еще один эффективный подход – использование новых слов в письменных заданиях.

Не менее важный момент – чтение книг в оригинале.

Текст интервью:  

My name is Daniel Puzzo and I’ve been a teacher here at the British Council for just over a year.

And I’m here today to talk to you about effective vocabulary learning technique strategies. And the first thing I often tell to my students is not to panic. There are so many vocabulary words out there, there’s no way you’re gonna learn all of them right away. You’ve got to take it in baby-steps. Be patient with it. And I always tell students the same thing that you can’t expect to actively use all the words you come across to learn but they will become probably more likely part of your passive vocabulary.

The question is how can we make more of these words from passive to active. And there’s a few different techniques.

Number one: when you learn a new word, don’t just write it down in your notebook with a translation. Try something like a concept map. Put the word down on a piece of paper, kind of circle the word in a bubble. Think of synonyms, antonyms, try to categorise the word, think of an example sentence, collocations for the word. So not just the word and it’s definition but different uses of the word.

Other things I tell people to do – same thing I do when I’m learning a language – is write. Students hate to hear that writing is such an effective way of using vocabulary because, let’s face it, writing isn’t the most popular activity, but writing is a great way to make these words more active. By using them, by showing you can use them in sentences accurately and properly – that will help you to be more comfortable speaking, using the word when you’re speaking.

Another thing I often tell students – and it’s the same thing I like to do – is I read for pleasure. You cannot yet stuck and bug down on the unknown words. If you do that I think you’ll loose the pleasure of reading. Try to read all the way through. Just for the pleasure and the beauty of the reading. Then you can go back and look at some of these words, and try to make them more active.

One last thing I recommend – make a checklist of words you want to use. Active. So for example, I may have three or four new words in Russian I learnt, or Ukrainian, and I make it … an effort to try to use those words in my everyday speech, maybe I’m going to a shop, or maybe I’m speaking to somebody, whatever. If you come into class, if you are talking to other English people or anybody who speaks English, just come with the checklist of the words, try to use the word, make a note of the word that you’ve used. The more you do that I think the more you’ll make these words part of your active vocabulary. Thank you.