How do students retain new words and structures in the LONG TERM? In other words how to ACQUIRE ( NOT learn) the new words?
Research indicates that people remember new words better when they receive gradual exposure to the words through comprehensible input rather than through conscious study and output practice.”
It is not most important to practice speaking or writing and there little need to go through word lists to acquire vocabulary. BEST is to LISTEN & READ. This is most efficient & effective.
In a study by Chun, Choi, and Kim (2012) in which two groups of students learned new words. One group was given the words in a list with translations into their L1 (native language), and they studied the words. The other group simply engaged in extensive reading, and the target words (foreign language words) were included in the texts they read.
On an immediate post-test, the two groups of students did equally well in remembering the word meanings. However, on a delayed post-test five weeks later, the group that had done extensive reading remembered more than 2.5 times as many word meanings as the group that had consciously studied the list of words."
-- modified from Alice Ayel
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