Expanding Vocabulary Through Reading  

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Maruyama, Fukuji

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: ENGLISH TEACHING FORUM (http://exchanges.state.gov/englishteaching/forum/archives.html) vol. 33 no. 4 (1995)
Topik: Vocabulary; Reading
Fulltext: Expanding Vocabulary Through Reading.pdf (124.91KB)

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One day when my son Kay was about fifteen years old, I heard him talking to his mother and noticed him using big, abstract words. I wondered when and how he had acquired a vocabulary larger than the typical fifteen year old. Then I realized that at the age of fourteen, Kay had begun to borrow books from my study. He even took out Introduction to Philosophy by Takeo Iwasaki. He said he understood it, though his love of logic and argument sometimes annoyed his mother. Thus, it occurred to me that my son was confirming Krashen's theory of vocabulary acquisition through reading. (see Footnote 1 below) Krashen supports the position that vocabulary is best acquired incidentally and effortlessly through reading. I have living proof of this hypothesis in my son. Furthermore, a questionnaire I distributed to twenty-two senior high school English and Japanese teachers revealed that 95.5% of them agree with the above hypothesis. (See pp. 37.)

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