Monday, October 30, 2017


Best Way to Acquire New Academic Vocabulary

Many students wonder how they can learn academic vocabularies quickly. Academic vocabularies seem to be hard for students to learn because they are multisyllabic and abstract. Some people complaint about they had difficult time trying to remember academic vocabularies and sometimes they feel disappointed since they cannot afford to learn it. Therefore, if you want to success in learning academic vocabularies, you should try to learn these following steps.

The first is to do not list a group of separated academic vocabularies. If you learn academic vocabularies without contexts, you won’t attain best results because it can also take a short time for you to remember them, but you will not be able to keep it in your mind longer. In contrast, through reading academic essays, academic reports, or an excerpt from context textbooks, you will pay attention much more how they can be used in different situations. Consequently, you will easily remember them for a long time.


Determining to study deliberately is also a necessary thing. You should also ask yourself if you want to learn and how you spend time for it? Never forget to study regularly the number of academic vocabularies every day and take time to build these vocabularies into different sentences because it is also a best important way to learn vocabularies quickly and effectively. Moreover, you should also need to frequently discuss in group with others and write essays with academic topics so that you can have opportunities to know more about academic vocabularies.

The last important thing is making a link between studying academic vocabularies and listening. That is not a perfect way if you just study them without listening. Both reading and listening are two positive sides in learning vocabularies. Therefore, spending time on listening to radio or some English programs is the method that helps increase your academic vocabularies and makes them stronger.

Everyone has different study style. There are a lot of ways that you can choose to make your study skills improve. The only thing you must do is to get motivation and effort to complete it. You will be successful!




2 comments:

  1. Thank you, Sr. Trang, for your insights. I like the idea of studying words in context, and practicing them in authentic speech/writing. Of course, motivation is a big factor, too! Good luck with everything!

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  2. I also think that having been motivated and practise a lot is the best way to improve my vocabulary skills. I like your thought of linking studying vocabulary and listening, because I have an embarrassing experience related to this. One day teacher made me read a book and I started to read. As I read the book, I realised that with some words, I knew the meaning of that word, but didn't know how to speak. So I kept buffering and that was really embarrassing experience for me. Thanks for sharing your idea, St. Trang.

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