26 March, 2012

Website of the Month: Vocabulary Building UEfAP


http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram

Using English for Academic Purposes: A Guide for Students in Higher Education

This website focusses on vocabulary in EAP, including:

  • vocabulary-building skills, for example:
    • use of prefixes, suffixes and roots to produce words;
    • knowledge of construction of compound nouns and adjectives;
    • ability to change word forms (nouns to verbs etc),
    • information about families (synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms etc)

  • vocabulary learning techniques, for example:
    • dictionary use
    • ways of dealing with meaning
    • recording of new words
    • remembering new words
    • working out meaning of unknown words.