How to effectively learn English vocabularies

There are many challenges before Spoken English Learners. One of the main aspects of learners challenge is that to master vocabularies or English words. First of all we must understand clearly certain myths related to learning vocabularies. Following are certain myths associated with learning vocabularies;

1. Learning a vocabulary without knowing full meaning
2. Learning a word without applying it
3. Concentration on learning more number of words per day than their usage
4. Learning a vocabulary with a context
5. Not understanding face value and place value of a vocabulary

All these myths should be thoroughly busted before proceeding effectively learning English vocabularies. I would like to answer for all the above myths with a simple context. You can learn a word or any number of words in a day. Make sure that all the words learnt are applied. Application means, form a sentence or more using those new vocabularies learnt. When framing such sentences make sure that you apply within the limit of your everyday actions. Here, we have an advantage. when we relate a word with our routing work it becomes easier for us to learn it in an interesting ways.

Effective steps to learn new vocabularies

IASR a specialised academy of skill development and research has been promoting its own innovative model of learning a new vocabularies. This method is widely being used among our learners and its being seen as a game changer as far as improving ‘English interactively – LSRW’ is concerned. The method is composed of six innovative steps which are detailed below;

Step 1 – Choose a word and find meaning by English to English

When you opt to learn a new word learn it through with English to English meaning. Understanding a word through your mother tongue enhances your correct usages of the word. But understanding the meaning through English enhances your applicability of the same. Also, when you learn meaning through English medium you could also learn additional words, a set of new words associated with the word being learnt.

Let us choose the following word:

Turmoil. The meaning for the word turmoil is ‘a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty’

Step 2 – Find the Parts of speech of the word

When we learn the meaning for a word, we normally come across short forms such as verb, noun, adj.,advern etc. These symbolic words are very important to understand. Because they are parts of speech. The importance of parts of speech should not be underestimated. If a learners becomes clear about a word being a verb or noun etc He/She intangibly clears most of the grammatical mistakes.

Word: Turmoil

Meaning: a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty

Parts of speech: Noun

Step 3 – Find Synonym of the the word

The third step is to find out synonym of the word. Here, you might choose to learn more than one synonyms in order to maximise your learning benefit. When you associate yourself with learning more than one words you are also parallely involving in application of the word to varied context.

Word: Turmoil

Meaning: a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty

Parts of speech: Noun

Synonym: Turbulence, Disruption, Pandemonium

Step 4 – Find Antonym of the word

Fourth sept involves in finding opposite words related to your new vocabulary or word. Now, you are adding more value to the vocabulary by learning both positive (equal) expression and negative (unequal) expression of the word.

Word: Turmoil

Meaning: a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty

Parts of speech: Noun

Synonym: Turbulence, Disruption, Pandemonium

Antonym: Calm, Peace, Tranquility

Step 5 – Form a sentence with the new vocabulary learnt

By the time you finish this fifth step you would have gained a holistic understanding a single word. Just, think the process gone through so far. You are actually learning a word interactively by taking you through yourself with necessary useful other associated works. Now, lets frame a sentence using the vocabulary as given below;

Word: Turmoil

Meaning: a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty

Parts of speech: Noun

Synonym: Turbulence, Disruption, Pandemonium

Antonym: Calm, Peace, Tranquility

Sentence: The crowd is in turmoil. After the heavy flood people are in turmoil.

Step 6 – Other ways of saying the word

In this sixth and last step you will learn how to say word in different forms. Primarily, when you apply a word you need to know two values of a word. Face value and Place value. Face value is the meaning of the word. Place value is possible ways of using the word learnt in relation to different situation and indifferent aspects. It can be done ass follows;

Word: Turmoil

Meaning: a state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty

Parts of speech: Noun

Synonym: Turbulence, Disruption, Pandemonium

Antonym: Calm, Peace, Tranquility

Sentence: The crowd is in turmoil. After the heavy flood people are in turmoil.

Other ways of saying it: Trailed (Verb/Past), Trailing (Continuous), Trail (Noun.

All these above mentioned six steps are given in video form as given below. You could access a lot of free resources from IASR Youtube Channel

The author is Kannan Periyanayagam, founder of IASR, a specialised academy of skill development.