ESP Vocabulary
ESP Vocabulary
ESP Vocabulary
KNOWING A WORD
It involves knowing its
-PAUL
NATION (2001)
CRITERIA
SUMMARY
The role of vocabulary in ESP Teaching and Learning
It is wise to direct a vocabulary to more specialized areas when learners
have mastered the 2000-3000 words of general usefulness of English.
(Nation 2001:187)
TYPES OF VOCABULARY
Spoken and Written Vocabulary- Spoken words like know, think ,like well where as written made up of function
words i.e. non content items like pronouns, prepositions etc.
Core and non-core Vocabulary- core vocabulary include those words which are more central to the language where as
non core include subject-specific vocabulary as far as the whole language is concerned.
Discourse structuring vocabulary and Procedural vocabulary- The abstract nouns that have little independent lexical
content like assumption, solution, factor belong to the discourse (to summarize) structuring vocabulary where as
procedural vocabulary is characteristically used to talk about the other words, paraphrase them, define and organize them.
Technical, semi technical and general vocabulary- (TV) that is used in general language and have high frequency.
(STV) that has specialized and restricted meanings in certain disciplines.
Academic Vocabulary-Word families that occur frequently in the academic texts and is not restricted to a specific
discipline.
a. Contextual Guessing
b. Memorizing
c. Affixes learning
d. Repetition
f. Brainstorming Activities
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