Key Concepts & the Language Teaching Classroom
* Really knowing a word means knowing all its different kinds of meaning.
* Knowing a word also involves understanding its form, i.e. what part of speech it is, how it works grammatically, and how it is pronounced and spelled.
* Whether we are learning our first or our second language, it takes long time before we fully know a word. We often recognise a word before we can use it.
* Teachers need to introduce vocabulary items again and again to learners, expanding gradually on their meaning and forms. This also increases the chances of learner remembering the item.
* We can introduce vocabulary items in reading and listening before we ask learners to use the items.
(from Cambridge 'The TKT Course')