How to enlarge person's vocabullary fast?

[katty_chan]

How to help my students enlarge their english in fast tempo? What way you use to do this, if you have to learn in really short period of time.
Hope to see your advises.
Thank you for attention.

 

[Tdol]

It is very difficult to learn a lot of new words fast. People who learn long lists of words go to bed knowing them, but find that they cannot remember much in a day or two. It is better to learn a small number at a time and to keep recycling them until they are in the long-term memory.

 

[emsr2d2]

How can I help my students [STRIKE]enlarge[/STRIKE] widen their English vocabulary [STRIKE]in fast tempo[/STRIKE] quickly? What [STRIKE]way[/STRIKE] methods do you use to do this, if you have to learn something in a really short period of time?

Hope to see your [STRIKE]advises[/STRIKE] advice.

[STRIKE]Thank you for attention.[/STRIKE] Unnecessary. Thank us after we help you.

Please see my corrections above. You said "my students". Are you an English teacher?

 

[NinjaTurtle]

How to help my students...

Katty-chan,

Are you in Japan? よろしく!

What level of students do you teach? College? Businessmen? Elementary school students? What level are your students at?

 

[jutfrank]

I don't think it's really possible, so you shouldn't even try.

Try thinking of learning more as a natural process, which can't, or shouldn't, be forced.

However, with most kinds of learning, the more practice you do, the easier the learning process is allowed to happen naturally, at an optimum pace.

 

[cloa]

He could get out Roget's Thesaurus-thematic type- and have the students learn all the words related one word such as big and its synonyms. As long as the goal is boost vocabulary only.

 

[Tdol]

He could get out Roget's Thesaurus-thematic type- and have the students learn all the words related one word such as big and its synonyms. As long as the goal is boost vocabulary only.

And how would that make things faster? The problem is speed not lists.

 

[emsr2d2]

He could get out Roget's Thesaurus -thematic type- and have the students learn all the words related to one word, such as "big" and its synonyms.

As long as the goal is to boost vocabulary only. (This is a sentence fragment.)

See above. I don't know what you mean by the part marked in blue.

Who is the "he" referred to at the start of the post?

 

[Tarheel]

You build vocabulary like you build a house -- one brick at a time.

 

[cloa]

It would make it faster because all the student has to remember when the teacher does a thorough memorisation exercise is that huge, enormous, gigantic, collossal.. .mean big which is a lot simpler than the usual way which is a bunch of unrelated words.

 

[jutfrank]

People need to remember that it's not the size of your vocabulary that counts—it's how you use it.

 

[Tdol]

You can often tell when a student uses a thesaurus by the odd choices of words that don't really fit the context.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

I'm told that the fastest way to learn a language is through immersion - the more, the better, and total immersion is best.

 

[cloa]

Yes, I age but some people and situations just want or require more words like for word games or prentiousness.

 

[emsr2d2]

And those people can do this in their own time. If they want to sit at home reading a thesaurus to prepare for a word game or to sound pretentious, that's up to them. You should make it clear, though, that that is not what your English lessons are for.