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1、TheWaystoEffectivelyMemorizeEnglishVocabularyAllthewordsinalanguagetogetherconstitutewhatisknownasitsvocabulary.Vocabularyisoneofthethreeelementsoflanguage:speechsounds,grammarandvocabulary.Thus,inlearningaforeignlanguage,itisveryimportanttoenlargeone’svocabulary.Howeve
2、r,manypeoplememorizeEnglishvocabularybyrote.Theyjustkeeprecallingthemeaningofwordsagainandagain.Memorizinginthiswaynotonlyforgeteasily,butalsospendlargeamountoftime.Wehavetoadmitthatitisfarfromeffectiveness.Therefore,especiallyinthelastestdecade,manyscholarsdevotethemse
3、lvestostudytheeffectivewaysofmemorizingEnglishvocabulary.Majorfruitsoftheirstudiesarelistedasfollows.MemorizingbyrootandaffixInthefamilyofEnglishvocabulary,rootsandaffixesjusttakeasmallportion,butitisthemthatmakesthefamilyofEnglishvocabularyanimmenseone.Forthisreason,it
4、isverynecessarytomemorizeEnglishvocabularybyrootandaffix.Let’stalkaboutrootatfirst.Forexample,theroot‘-log-’hasthesamilarmeaningto‘speak’whichinChineseiscalled‘言’.Thenwecanderivemanynewwordsfromit,suchasdialogus,prologus,apologize,epilogue,monologue,andsoon.Next,let’sha
5、vealookataffix.Affixconsistsofprefixandsuffix,whileprefixmainlyaffectsaword’smeaning,andsuffixinfluencesaword’ssyntacticalfunctionsandmorphologicalfeatures.Bothprefixandsuffixarewidelyused.Forexample,cur-(curs-,cours-)——torunortogo——current,and–ion(-tion,-ation,-sion)——
6、situationorbehavior——introduction.MemorizingbycontextandauditionRecently,avocabularybooknamed‘Memorizevocabularyfeelinglikefishinwater’isratherpopular.ThemainideaofthisbookistomemorizeEnglishvocabularybyputtingthevocabularyintocontexts,suchascurrentaffairsorshortpassage
7、s,especiallywhichhasbeentestedintheformerexaminations.What’smore,therealsoarelisteningmaterialsaccordingtothesepassageswhichcanenhancethememorizationofEnglishvocabulary.Asasurveyshows,inthememoryofhumanbeings,25%comesfromvisionwhile15%comesfromaudition.However,ifwecombi
8、nethemtogether,theeffectcanriseupto65%.MemorizingbymemorytreeMemorytreeisakindofgraphwhichconsistsofabasicword