Building A Better Vocabulary - The Great Courses

Question 1

What are 5 Principles of Building a Better Vocabulary? Using the word “Factotum”.

Answer 1

Factotum

1. Clear Definition - SOmeone hired to do a variety of jobs “Jack of All Trades”
2. Place the word in context - Tessa the office Factotum answers the office phones, does paperwork and bakes cookies.
3. Make Conections to the Word - Alfred the Butler, Moms
4. Morphology
5. Structure Your Word Learning - Chunking, Schema Theory

Question 2

What is the Junk Drawer Phenomenon?

Answer 2

When you randomly learn words it becomes very hard to keep them. If you chunk them you will have much more success.

Question 3

What is Schema Theory?

Answer 3

We organize and categorize knowledge by abstract mental framework. Or Mental File Folders.

Question 4

What is the best way to study words for the first time?

Answer 4

If you group words like maylay, tussel, spat, fight, donnybrook etc together you will start to learn their subtler meanings and nuances rather than in a list of other random words.

Question 5

What is Semantic Chunking?

Answer 5

Semantic Chunking is the grouping on similar root meaning words together for learning.