The process of acquiring vocabulary

This coursework presents the process of acquiring vocabulary. The reason I’ve chosen this theme is the wish to know more about developing vocabulary and how to make the lesson more interesting and useful at the same time. Also I’m interested in finding more successful methods of learning and memorizing words. There are the following questions which in my opinion should be considered:
What is vocabulary?
How important is vocabulary?
How words are remembered?
Why do we forget words?
What kind of mistakes do learners make?
What techniques are used in learning and teaching vocabulary?
What methods are used and how they work?

Introduction……………………………………………………………………


I. Theoretical part
1.1 What is vocabulary?
How important is vocabulary?
How is vocabulary learned?
How words are remembered?
What makes a word difficult?
Revising vocabulary
How important is the student’s motivation?


II. Techniques of teaching
2.1 Techniques of teaching………………………………………………………14
2.2 Categorization………………………………………………………………..14
2.3 Semantic Feature Analysis…………………………………………………..15
2.4 Making Analogies……………………………………………………………16
2.5 Structural Analysis…………………………………………………………...16
2.6 Use of the Dictionary…………………………………………………………18
2.7 Special Types of Vocabulary Terms…………………………………………21