Most language teachers are tend to recognize vocabulary power as sub-elements of reading comprehension ability. But, to be high level language users, it is need to consider it as extensive language use ability. People in general have four types of vo...
Most language teachers are tend to recognize vocabulary power as sub-elements of reading comprehension ability. But, to be high level language users, it is need to consider it as extensive language use ability. People in general have four types of vocabulary: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Knowing words actually involves all the them Words learned during reading are reinforced by speaking, writing, and listening. New words encountered during listening can be added to speaking, writing, and reading vocabularies. Therefore, effective vocabulary instruction will develop students` vocabularies in all four areas. capsule vocabulary strategy is introduced, because it`s unique feature is that it incorporates the four language areas into the process of building vocabulary. Three types of learning-vocabulary is discussed; known words, known cencepts, unknown concepts. Known words are that students have already known target vocabulary and its concept. For them, four ways is considered: exclusive brainstorming, list-group-label, semantic mapping and semantic feature analysis. Known concepts are new words that represent known concepts. To teach them, three ways is able to be introduced: context plus use of the dictionary, definition plus rich context, and context-relationship procedure. Lastly, unknown words are new words that relate to new concepts. For them, two methods is discussed: using the synonyms and antonyms and concept of define map.