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Person, Task, Context and Strategies. Vol. 7. No. 2. A 4. September 2. 00. 3Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language Person, Task, Context and Strategies. Peter Yongqi Gult yqpgunie. National Institute of Education Nanyang Technological University. This paper reviews empirical research on vocabulary learning strategies in a secondforeign language. A tetrahedral model of person, task, context, and strategies is first proposed to foreground the review. Next, empirical research along task, person, and contextual dimensions is reviewed. Specifically, the review focuses on task dependent guessing strategies, dictionary strategies, note taking strategies, rote rehearsal strategies, and encoding strategies. Instead of searching for the best strategies that produce the best results, the author argues that the choice, use, and effectiveness of vocabulary learning strategies depend on the task, the learner, and the learning context. The paper ends by calling for a diversification of effort in both top down theory building that provides clearer guidance to future research and more bottom up empirical research that goes beyond the presentation and retention of words. Introduction. Psychologists, linguists, and language teachers have been interested in vocabulary learning strategies for a long time Levenston, 1. Numerous studies have been conducted comparing the retention effects of different vocabulary presentation strategies. In fact, the vocabulary field has been especially productive in the last two decades. We have seen a number of classic volumes on theories e. Carter, 1. 98. 7 Carter Mc. Carthy, 1. 98. 8 Mc. Carthy, 1. 99. 0 Nation, 1. Arnaud Bejoint, 1. Gass, 1. 98. 7 Meara, 1. Nation Carter, 1. Manual De Tecnicas De Modificacion De Conducta Pdf. Gairns Redman, 1. Mc. Carthy ODell, 1. Recent volumes, especially the CUP volumes, that shed significant light upon different aspects of vocabulary acquisition include Huckin, Haynes, and Coady 1. Harley 1. 99. 5, Hatch and Brown 1. Coady and Huckin 1. Schmitt and Mc. Carthy 1. Atkins 1. 99. 8, Wesche and Paribakht 1. Connect to download. Get pdf. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching Jack C. Richards Theodore S. Rodgers. Vocabulary Learning in a Second Language Person, Task, Context and Strategies. Peter Yongqi Gu ltyqpgunie. National Institute of Education. Provide a description, explanation, or example of the new term. Looking up words in dictionaries is not useful for teaching vocab Provide a context for the. I/41CnIycxEoL.jpg' alt='Teaching Language Context Pdf' title='Teaching Language Context Pdf' />Read 2. Schmitt 2. Nation 2. This article aims to provide a digest of recent research on vocabulary acquisition and to pinpoint areas that need further exploration. To this end, the article focuses on one area, i. It is argued that despite the impressive amount of recent research on vocabulary acquisition, a person task context strategy perspective that is presented here is needed in order to anchor existing research in a larger framework and to point to areas for future efforts. Person, task, context, and learning strategies. When a person approaches a relatively challenging task, she adopts certain strategies to solve the problem. Secondlanguage acquisition SLA, secondlanguage learning, or L2 language 2 acquisition, is the process by which people learn a second language. The Japan Foundation JapaneseLanguage Institute, Kansai has released the Japanese language learning platform, JF Japanese eLearning Minato in order to provide an. IB position paper. Physical and health education guide pilot For use from September 2014 or January 2015. Conceptbased teaching and learning. H Lynn Erickson. The online version of Teaching and Teacher Education at ScienceDirect. This problem solving process is constrained by the learning context where the problem is being tackled. Language learning in general and vocabulary acquisition in particular are such problem solving tasks at different levels of complexity. The strategies a learner uses and the effectiveness of these strategies very much depend on the learner himherself e. Theorists and researchers have presented the same framework in slightly different ways. Williams and Burdens 1. Cohen 2. 00. 1 focuses on learners and discusses the intersection of learning style preferences, learner strategies, and language tasks. Flavells 1. 97. Wenden, 1. Brown, Bransford, Ferrara, and Campione 1. The person task context strategy model outlined here can be viewed as a synthesis of this body of knowledge, specifically for the purpose of analyzing research work on language learning strategies. Person. The learner brings to the language learning situation a wide spectrum of individual differences that will influence the learning rate and the ultimate learning result. The most widely reported learner factors include age, sex, language aptitude, intelligence, prior knowledge, motivation, self conceptimage, personality, and cognitive and learning style. These person dependent factors are relatively stable, and determine to a large extent how a learner approaches a task. Task. A learning task is the end product in the learners mind. It can be as broad as mastering a second language or as specific as remembering one meaning of a word. Broadly speaking, this conception of the learning task includes the materials being learned such as the genre of a piece of reading as well as the goal the learner is trying to achieve by using these materials such as remembering, comprehending, or using language. It should be noted that this conception of task is in line with the traditional, broader understanding of task as in Flavell 1. Wenden 1. 98. 7, and Williams and Burden 1. Nunan, 1. 98. 9. Different types of task materials, task purposes, and tasks at various difficulty levels demand different learner strategies. For example, learning words in a word list is different from learning the same words in a passage. Remembering a word meaning is different from learning to use the same word in real life situations. Likewise, guessing from context would mean different things for texts of different levels of new word density. Context. Learning context refers to the learning environment. It is the socio culturo political environment where learning takes place. The learning context can include the teachers, the peers, the classroom climate or ethos, the family support, the social, cultural tradition of learning, the curriculum, and the availability of input and output opportunities. Learning context is different from language context which refers to the textual or discoursal place in which a particular word or structure can be found. Learning contexts constrain the ways learners approach learning tasks. A learning strategy that is valued in one learning context may well be deemed inappropriate in another context. Strategy. A learning strategy is a series of actions a learner takes to facilitate the completion of a learning task. A strategy starts when the learner analyzes the task, the situation, and what is available in hisher own repertoire. The learner then goes on to select, deploy, monitor, and evaluate the effectiveness of this action, and decides if she needs to revise the plan and action. Cohen 1. 99. 8 distinguishes between language learning strategies and language use strategies, the former being strategies for learning tasks such as remembering, and the latter being strategies for language use, such as communicating in an L2. Person, task, context, and strategy are interrelated and work together to form the chemistry of learning. An analysis of learning strategies will never be complete without knowing the person task context configuration of the particular learning situation. Some strategies are more person dependent, some are more task dependent, and others are more context dependent. The task of vocabulary learning. One way to see the overall task of vocabulary learning is through the distinction between knowing a word and using a word. In other words, the purpose of vocabulary learning should include both remembering words and the ability to use them automatically in a wide range of language contexts when the need arises Mc. Carthy, 1. 98. 4. In fact, evidence suggests that the knowledge aspect both breadth and depth requires more conscious and explicit learning mechanisms whereas the skill aspect involves mostly implicit learning and memory Ellis, 1.