What does it mean to 'know' a word

1. Jo Gakonga
elt-training.com

2. “Without grammar very little can be conveyed;
without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.”
Wilkins 1972

3. » Over a million
» Typical NS knows about 40,000
» Typical NS only uses 5,000 – 10, 000
in speech

14. What problems do you have putting these words
in order…
Short
Tall
Lanky
Vertically challenged
Petite

15. Do these words mean the same?
accommodate put someone up
ameliorate change
agitate stir

16. Do these words mean the same?
Can you swim?
Can you pass the salt?

17. What’s wrong here?
Hey there – how are
you going? Good morning, sir.

18. Do these words mean the same?
short small
big large
light bright

19. fan fan
bow bow
steak stake

20. steak stake

21. bow bow

22. fan fan

23. » What are the issues here?
through cough
blow coat
caution politician

24. » Irregular plurals /count or non-count
mouse mice mouses?
» Irregular conjugations
Swim swam swum

25. » What do prefixes do?
unlucky dishonest rewrite
» What do suffixes do?
careful careless carelessly care

26. » Why do these sound odd?
day rancid ish
irth
y
err
he
’s a
str
ong
s
oe
r.

27. » a e a sentence with these beginnings…
I love ….
I sleep….
He suggested…
» What do you need to know?

28. » pelling isn’t only a proble with or . How do
you say these words?
enough bough
was last
skirt pert
What are the problems here?

29. What are the problems here?
Piano o0o pianist 0oo
Photograph 0oo photographer o0oo

31. Receptive purposes
Productive purposes

32. What does it mean to know a word?
An Introduction to Second Language Vocabulary
http://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/0472030299-intro.pdf
Vocabulary in Language Teaching by Norbert Schmitt
http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/cam032/99057110.pdf
Vocabulary Acquisition; The research and its pedagogical implications
byPeter Duppenthaler
http://www.lib.tezuka-
gu.ac.jp/kiyo/rTEZUKAYAMAGAKUINUNI/r42PDF/r42Duppenthaler.pdf