 Re: counting vocabulary
Hi,
I'm new to the forum and have just come accross your request. I agree with the member above that names definitely don't count towards someone's vocabulary knowledge. I also strongly agree that it is enough to talk about names once you come across them in texts, but that - especially when you read texts about people from other countries - it might be useful to tell your students whether the name is likely to be male or female (in case the text stays unclear about that).
Regarding words with several meanings I wouldn't count them as two different words as in fact it is only one word which simply has several meanings. Students have to understand how much one word can differ in meaning depending on the context it is used in. It's the same in any other language, too, isn't it. |