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1、TheWaystoEffectivelyMemorizeEnglishVocabularyAllthewordsinalanguagetogetherconstitutewhatisknownasitsvocabulary.Vocabularyisoneofthethreeelementsoflanguage:speechsounds,grammarandvocabulary.Thus,inlearningaforeignlanguage,itisveryimportanttoenlargeone’svocabulary.However,manypeopleme
2、morizeEnglishvocabularybyrote.Theyjustkeeprecallingthemeaningofwordsagainandagain.Memorizinginthiswaynotonlyforgeteasily,butalsospendlargeamountoftime.Wehavetoadmitthatitisfarfromeffectiveness.Therefore,especiallyinthelastestdecade,manyscholarsdevotethemselvestostudytheeffectivewayso
3、fmemorizingEnglishvocabulary.Majorfruitsoftheirstudiesarelistedasfollows.MemorizingbyrootandaffixInthefamilyofEnglishvocabulary,rootsandaffixesjusttakeasmallportion,butitisthemthatmakesthefamilyofEnglishvocabularyanimmenseone.Forthisreason,itisverynecessarytomemorizeEnglishvocabulary
4、byrootandaffix.Let’stalkaboutrootatfirst.Forexample,theroot‘-log-’hasthesamilarmeaningto‘speak’whichinChineseiscalled‘言’.Thenwecanderivemanynewwordsfromit,suchasdialogus,prologus,apologize,epilogue,monologue,andsoon.Next,let’shavealookataffix.Affixconsistsofprefixandsuffix,whileprefi
5、xmainlyaffectsaword’smeaning,andsuffixinfluencesaword’ssyntacticalfunctionsandmorphologicalfeatures.Bothprefixandsuffixarewidelyused.Forexample,cur-(curs-,cours-)——torunortogo——current,and–ion(-tion,-ation,-sion)——situationorbehavior——introduction.MemorizingbycontextandauditionRecent
6、ly,avocabularybooknamed‘Memorizevocabularyfeelinglikefishinwater’isratherpopular.ThemainideaofthisbookistomemorizeEnglishvocabularybyputtingthevocabularyintocontexts,suchascurrentaffairsorshortpassages,especiallywhichhasbeentestedintheformerexaminations.What’smore,therealsoarelisteni
7、ngmaterialsaccordingtothesepassageswhichcanenhancethememorizationofEnglishvocabulary.Asasurveyshows,inthememoryofhumanbeings,25%comesfromvisionwhile15%comesfromaudition.However,ifwecombinethemtogether,theeffectcanriseupto65%.MemorizingbymemorytreeMemorytreeisakindofgraphwhichconsists
8、ofabasicword