Providing Vocabulary Incidental Learning through Reading

DOI

10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.30How to use a DOI?

Keywords

input, vocabulary, reading, incidental learning

Abstract

This article looks at how reading in second language learning is beneficial for the learners, saying precisely on the opportunities to learn vocabulary along the reading. As the building block of the sentence, vocabulary plays central position in helping learners learn the new language. Therefore, it is important to help learners acquires vocabulary through appropriate method. One that is considered valuable is through reading. Although in general it is easily said that reading will help learners gain vocabulary, in practice, it is difficult to pin point how reading should be beneficial for vocabulary growth. This article takes particular look on the condition that make reading a reliable sources for vocabulary acquired incidentally. In making it as the best sources for learning, the reading must be choosen by focusing on text familiarity and considering level of difficulty and frequency range, or language proficiency. These two notions are important in helping learners develop interest in reading and ability to guess the unknown words. . There is a notion also, however, that learning vocabularies through reading is a slow process. However, Iit is also shown that incidental vocabulary learning occurs though reading, a slow process of gaining new vocabularies, but a powerful one as the vocabulary acquired retains. Moreover, as reading also provide a fun and enjoyable activity, and it also helps developing literacy, the benefit to provide learners with a lot of reading is fruitful

Copyright

© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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