Cognitive Approach of Vocabulary Learning

DOI

10.2991/icadce-16.2016.373How to use a DOI?

Keywords

vocabulary learning; polysemy; metaphor; metonymy; chunk

Abstract

Vocabulary learning is one of the most important components for any language learners. According to my college English teaching experience, vocabulary knowledge is closely and frequently associated with language fluency, which poses the biggest headache for foreign language learners, including the college students of intermediate level. This paper aims to offer some strategies of vocabulary acquisition with the help of two powerful cognitive tools---metaphor and metonymy, which are traditionally treated as figurative speech for language decoration. Considering that most English words are polysemous to some extent, this paper also discusses the relationship between core meaning and extended meanings, and the collocation of combined words---chunks.

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© 2016, 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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AU  - Bianqi Sun
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TI  - Cognitive Approach of Vocabulary Learning
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education
PB  - Atlantis Press
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