11. English vocabulary 英语词汇量

本文探讨了英语词汇量的复杂性,指出英语单词的确切数量难以确定,大型词典收录超过50万词条,但实际可用的英语单词可能超过一百万。文章还提及了一年级学生入学时已掌握至少24000个单词,并每年增加5000个,到高中毕业时词汇量至少达到80000个。此外,提供了扩大词汇量的策略,包括将阅读中遇到的单词转化为积极使用的词汇。

11. English vocabulary 英语词汇量

(1) The exact number of English words is not known.The large dictionaries have over half a million entries,but many of these are compound words(schoolroom,sugarbowl)or different derivatives of the same word,and a good many are obsolete words to help us read older literature.Dictionaries do not attempt to cover completely words that we can draw on:the informal vocabulary,especially slang,localism ,the terms of various occupations and professions ,words used only occasionally by scientists and specialists in many fields,foreign words borrowed for use in English,or many new words or new senses of words that come into use every year and that may or may not be used long enough to warrant being included.It would be conservative to say that there are over a million English words that any of us might meet in our listening and reading and that we may draw on in our speaking and listening.

(2) Professor Seashore concluded that first-graders enter school with at least 24,000 words and add 5,000 each year so that they leave high school with at least 80,000.These figures are for recognition vocabulary,the words we understand when we read or hear them.Our active vocabulary,the words we use in speaking and writing,is considerably smaller.

(3) You cannot always produce a word exactly when you want it.But consciously using the word you recognize in reading will help get them into your active vocabulary.Occasionally in your reading pay particular attention to these words,especially when the subject is one that you might well write or talk about.Underline or make a list of words that you feel a need for and look up the less familiar ones in a dictionary.And then before very long find a way to use some of them.Once you know how they are pronounced and what they stand for,you can safely use them.

转载于:https://www.cnblogs.com/larken/p/10453832.html

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