Blog one: My strategy of learning vocabu

My strategy of learning vocabulary

Last week, we were instructed to start our vocabulary notebooks. For everyone is unique, it is natural that different people adopt their own ways of organizing vocabulary notebooks and I am no exception. I'd like to share my approach with you.

When encountering a new word, I usually first look it up in Oxford advanced English-English dictionary(electronic edition). Secondly, I will search for further information, especially the usage of this word in Oxford collocation dictionary(electronic edition). After doing these, I will clarify the word. For some words, knowing the meaning is enough because there are few situations where you have chances to use them or the usage of it is quite simple. But in terms of words whose collocations are not that simple, you should write them down and try to remember. This also applies to the words that you have lots of opportunities to use and those words that are idiomatic to use. The above is my own way to accumulate vocabulary.

The advantages are obvious. It can save time, for I use electronic dictionary(the content are the same as the printed one). What's more, it's convenient. For those words that I only need to know the meaning, I just add them to my e-notebook. It only takes one second to click. Further more, the e-notebook(exploited by Kingsoft) is scientific, it can remind you when and what words you need to review, according to "forgetting curve". The disadvantages are that it's inconvenient for mentors to examine and you need some equipments( for example a ipad) to do this, so that you can make your e-notebook portable.

I hope my mentor can accept my approach and also I am sorry for the trouble I bring to her!