Tips of Improving Your Vocabulary

For someone who learns English as a foreign language or as a second language, the mastery of vocabulary plays an important role beside the other components that should be mastered in learning a foreign language. It can rationally support a foreign language learner to comprehend texts, articles, or essays written in the foreign language. By mastering the vocabulary, learners can easily express ideas or feelings using the language they learn fluently. In doing an English examination, it also helps learners catch the meaning of the questions so they can automatically give the answer in a right way. Thus, increasing vocabulary is a must for English language learners to do if they want to be successful in learning it.

There are some ways that learners can do to improve their vocabulary. Some tips that will be elaborated here are taken from the article presented by eHow Education Editor. The article provides some valuable tips for English learners in order to be able to develop their vocabulary. The following are the steps you can perform:

1. Read books, magazines, poems, plays, stories, and more. The more language you are exposed to, the more new words you will learn.
2. Make it a habit to find a new word everyday. You can look in the dictionary or make swapping new words as game with a workmate or fellow student.
3. Speak to people. You will be exposed to an amazing range of cultural influences and occupations, all which will introduce you to new words.
4. Write down words you do not know. Keep a pad in your briefcase or purse jut for that purpose.
5. Look up the words in a dictionary so you will understand what they mean, how they are spelled and their various usages. They will also help you remember the words.
6. Make flashcards of the words and go through them regularly.
7. Create or play word games. Scrabble, for example, is great way to reinforce new vocabulary words.

Finally, the seven steps above are hopefully able to aid foreign language learners in the effort of increasing their vocabulary. Just do the tips and see what happens to your English vocabulary.

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The Canal of English Materials

It is generally accepted as a place for the learners in our educational institution to search, find, and download the materials which they must learn and master in one semester. This blog, therefore, provides the materials and the students' worksheets. The uploaded materials here are systematically arranged in line with the 2006 Indonesian curriculum and the syllabus. After the students find the materials they need, it is expected that they can first prepare and learn them at home with anyone who has the competence in English. So, when they listen to and pay attention to the teacher's explanation related to the materials in the classroom, they can easily catch and understand the materials. In addition to it, they will be able to do the tasks related to the materials easily when the teacher gives them some exercise. Besides the materials and the worksheets, it also contains some daily tasks, the samples of daily examination, the mid and final semester tests from the previous years as references because our institution always arranges them to check or to know the students' progress and achievement.

The result of the evaluation will also be displayed in this page. It consists of the score list of the daily examination including the average score, the mid and final semester tests. It is done in order to make the students easy to access and know the result of the test they took. They can also measure the competence they have achieved. So, they will be a motivated student who always wants to increase and make their way of studying better than before.

For parents who are willing to know their boys' and girls' progress, they can also access and see the final score that will be written or reported in the students' achievement report book (given by our institution at the end of the semester). By doing this, parents are expected to be able to lead, motivate, and encourage their children to get better achievement for the next semester.

At last but not least, whether it is realized or not, to make the students successful becomes our responsibility. So, it requires the cooperation among parents, environment, and teachers at school. Without it, your dream of making your children reach the top achievement and the brighter future is just a dream and a dream.

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