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    Vocabulary: 5 Steps to Help Your Students Learn More Vocabulary
    Vocabulary: 5 Steps to Help Your Students Learn More Vocabulary
    Vocabulary: 5 Steps to Help Your Students Learn More Vocabulary
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    Vocabulary: 5 Steps to Help Your Students Learn More Vocabulary

    By Adel Alharbi

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    If you spend a lot of time reading your textbooks or struggling to establish a good writing style, or feel incompetent to speak using proper language, then Vocabulary: 5 steps to help your students learn more vocabulary will enrich your vocabulary knowledge, prepare you to undertake new tasks, and boost your language cognitively, socially, and linguistically. This book identifies and offers help for most issues that arise when you encounter new words which might hinder your understanding of a new text or involvement in conversation. These moments of disconnection come from not knowing words. Thinking strategically and improving your autonomous self-learning skills are the basic aims of this book; they will help you to retain new vocabulary into your longer-term memory and develop your language. For over 10 years, I have been a language learner, teacher and researcher. I have carefully researched and gained so much knowledge from these topics (vocabulary acquisition; vocabulary learning strategy). Now, I am ready to put this book in your hands for you to use as a reference. My greatest motivation to write this book was my students. They struggled hard to keep up with academic work and to write excellent college papers. Now, I want to share what I know to help people like them This book contains the self-learning strategy that each learner has but may not know how to use. The Vocab-backup Strategy has been analytically collected, designed, researched, and finally published to enrich your learning habits with the most important skills you need to build up your vocabulary size. With its sequential processes and procedures, you can develop an excellent knowledge of new vocabulary, beginning with Step 1 - Look for synonyms first - up to Step 5 - Remembering Strategy for Writing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdel Alharbi
    Release dateNov 11, 2017
    ISBN9781370446896
    Vocabulary: 5 Steps to Help Your Students Learn More Vocabulary
    Author

    Adel Alharbi

    I am a language and cultural adventurer. I love to talk to the world and be part of it as well. I love to see what I have done and share my insights and works with others. Lastly I love to explore nature of all kinds.

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      Vocabulary - Adel Alharbi

      Vocabulary

      5 Steps to Help Your Students Learn More Vocabulary

      Adel M. Alharbi

      Copyright © 2017 Adel M. Alharbi

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

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      To my mom (Fatimah) and Dad (Marzouq)

      who taught me my life’s first vocabulary.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      PREFACE

      Purpose

      Audience

      About This Book

      INTRODUCTION

      Why Learning Vocabulary is Important

      Introducing the Vocab-Backup Strategy – VBS

      CHAPTER I

      Step #1: Synonyms First!

      Synonym Strategies Process

      Semantic Map Example

      CHAPTER II

      Step #2: Meaning with Context

      CHAPTER III

      Step #3: Pronunciation Practice Process

      CHAPTER IV

      Step #4: Bookmark Your Vocabulary Search

      CHAPTER V

      Step #5: Remembering Strategy for Writing

      CONCLUSION

      VOCAB-BACKUP 5 STEPS STRATEGY

      ACTIVITIES TO USE VBS

      BIBLIOGRAPHY

      APPENDIX

      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      First and foremost, my absolute thanks are to God [Allah, The Creator] who made our knowledge in words to be seen, developed our language to be spoken in infinite tongues and meanings, and guided our actions to the right path.

      I would like to give my thanks too to all my professors and students who supported me in writing this book and who showed their motivation toward my book topic. Also, I should give a special thanks to my book editor, Dr. Steven Miller, who made this book look better.

      This book’s initial spark came from the immense support and guidance of Dr. Mahmoud Amer, who pushed me to continue investigating this topic. Additional appreciation goes to Dr. Teresa Dalle (my PhD supervisor) for her great assistance and support in guiding my research.

      Finally, I must thank Dr. Rebecca Oxford for her endless endeavors to encourage the flourishing of the field of vocabulary learning strategies and language learning strategies. She inspires and motivates us to think strategically in our language learning and to activate the power of self-regulation in the field of Applied Linguistics.

      Lastly, my endless gratitude and thanks to my family Samar and Rayan who supported me the whole journey to publish this book. Thank you so much for giving me time and courage to make my book publishing happened on time.

      PREFACE

      Purpose

      Vocabulary: 5 steps to help your students learn more vocabulary aims to help language learners integrate the best strategies in acquiring new words. The core stimulus of this project came after years of teaching ESL students and noticing that students’ language proficiency in most classes (English, history, grammar, reading, and other writing-intensive subjects) were insufficient, despite their academic achievements. In other words, it is neither their lack of learning motivation nor different styles of communication that lowers their language proficiency, but rather a lack of building a sufficiently sized new vocabulary to use the language. Years of research in language learning has shown that most language learners prefer to use a strategy that they can depend on, and most start with vocabulary learning strategy during the process of learning. For this basic reason, I am offering this book for students to succeed in their academic journey and fulfil their course requirements to achieve higher vocabulary knowledge. Frequently, teachers’ frustration about students’ progress was mostly recognized as due to a failure of vocabulary building. This motivated me to contemplate this topic and offer a workable method to learners and teachers as well. Another purpose of this book is to evoke the use of

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