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1、TheWaystoEffectivelyMemorizeEnglishVocabularyAllthewordsinalanguagetogetherconstitutewhatisknownasitsvocabulary.Vocabularyisoneofthethreeelementsoflanguage:speechsounds,grammarandvocabulary.Thus,inlearningaforeignlanguage,itisveryimportanttoenlargeone’svocabulary.However,manypeopl
2、ememorizeEnglishvocabularybyrote.Theyjustkeeprecallingthemeaningofwordsagainandagain.Memorizinginthiswaynotonlyforgeteasily,butalsospendlargeamountoftime.Wehavetoadmitthatitisfarfromeffectiveness.Therefore,especiallyinthelastestdecade,manyscholarsdevotethemselvestostudytheeffectiv
3、ewaysofmemorizingEnglishvocabulary.Majorfruitsoftheirstudiesarelistedasfollows.MemorizingbyrootandaffixInthefamilyofEnglishvocabulary,rootsandaffixesjusttakeasmallportion,butitisthemthatmakesthefamilyofEnglishvocabularyanimmenseone.Forthisreason,itisverynecessarytomemorizeEnglishv
4、ocabularybyrootandaffix.Let’stalkaboutrootatfirst.Forexample,theroot‘-log-’hasthesamilarmeaningto‘speak’whichinChineseiscalled‘言’.Thenwecanderivemanynewwordsfromit,suchasdialogus,prologus,apologize,epilogue,monologue,andsoon.Next,let’shavealookataffix.Affixconsistsofprefixandsuffi
5、x,whileprefixmainlyaffectsaword’smeaning,andsuffixinfluencesaword’ssyntacticalfunctionsandmorphologicalfeatures.Bothprefixandsuffixarewidelyused.Forexample,cur-(curs-,cours-)——torunortogo——current,and–ion(-tion,-ation,-sion)——situationorbehavior——introduction.Memorizingbycontextan
6、dauditionRecently,avocabularybooknamed‘Memorizevocabularyfeelinglikefishinwater’isratherpopular.ThemainideaofthisbookistomemorizeEnglishvocabularybyputtingthevocabularyintocontexts,suchascurrentaffairsorshortpassages,especiallywhichhasbeentestedintheformerexaminations.What’smore,t
7、herealsoarelisteningmaterialsaccordingtothesepassageswhichcanenhancethememorizationofEnglishvocabulary.Asasurveyshows,inthememoryofhumanbeings,25%comesfromvisionwhile15%comesfromaudition.However,ifwecombinethemtogether,theeffectcanriseupto65%.MemorizingbymemorytreeMemorytreeisakin
8、dofgraphwhichconsistsofabasicword