Activating and Applying Schema Theory to Vocabulary Teaching in Foreign Language Learning
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2021
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Peter Lang AG
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Vocabulary learning is one of the most demanding and challenging processes of foreign language learning if the target language is not used in daily activities except the classroom. There is no distinct class hour devoted to vocabulary teaching in foreign language programs. Traditionally teachers prefer to give the equivalent meanings of the unknown words in learners’ native language. Those who are learning a target language as a foreign language habitually have difficulty in learning and remembering the words when they need them. Learners just tend to learn the first meaning of the unknown word explained in the dictionary and have no curiosity to learn the other meanings. It is impossible to be an efficient and effective language user if you don’t have a certain amount of vocabulary. Schema is a building block of learning and organizing information. Objects, people, situations, and feelings, everything we experienced so far in our life make our schemata. They are almost similar to files that we store any kind of information and media on the computer. Giving a particular importance to schema activating in vocabulary teaching will make permanent the words learned in a foreign language class. In the process of vocabulary teaching if learner’s schemas are activated, students will easily establish a neural network between the vocabulary presented to them and already existing knowledge in their mind, this will also result in recalling the words easily when needed, and significantly will also enhance their comprehension. In addition to all these things, schema activating and applying it to vocabulary teaching will also have some by-products such as extending intellectual knowledge of the learners and making possible constructing new schema if there is no prior knowledge on the topic that is studied in the lesson. © Peter Lang GmbH.
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Language Teaching, Neural Network, Recalling, Schemata, Vocabulary Teaching
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Synergy II: Linguistics: Contemporary Studies on Turkish Linguistics
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