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Is learning vocabulary by means of (bilingual) vocabulary lists inefficient, and if yes, why?
A previous question, "Is it bad to only learn vocabulary through conversation/applied use?" (The question is now only visible to users with 2000+ reps) looked like three questions combined into a single post, so I am splitting off one of them:
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What is the "emergentist" approach to SLA?
What is emergentism and how does it relate to second language acquisition? What is the evidence for it?
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What affects how hard something is to learn in my L2?
Features of an L2 are of varying difficulty. For example, many English learners of Spanish struggle with things like subjunctive mood. Personally, I struggle with negation in Norwegian (the negative particle comes after the verb).
What influences…
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What are the main types of fluency that are relevant to language learning?
Fluency is often confused with proficiency; it has even been an issue on this site. Simply put, proficiency is the level you have reached, whereas fluency is based on the automaticity and smoothness with which you can perform certain language tasks.…
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When studying German, how much time should be spent on learning grammar rules vs. vocabulary?
How much time do I need to give to learning grammar rules versus vocabulary while studying German, or is it possible to speak a foreign language without needing to learn grammar rules?
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Is recall study more effective than recognition study for learning vocabulary?
According to Tim Ferris,
If you train for recall, you get recognition automatically; if you train for recognition, recall is terrible, or as slow as molasses. (See The Time Ferris Show, 19 June 2014).
Even though it sounds intuitively plausible,…
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According to research, how effective is Memrise for learning vocabulary?
The Memrise website has a page about the scientific principles on which Memrise is based. The page also lists several articles and studies that support these principles. However, it does not list any studies that have been done involving Memrise.…
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What are Memrise's advantages?
I want to use Memrise to learn languages, but I do not know Memrise's advantages. What are Memrise's advantages?
I accepted an answer, but If someone posted a good answer here, I will accept the answer.
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What are some of the oldest documented language learning techniques or resources?
There are several archaeological bilingual and multilingual artefacts, e.g.
the Philae obelisk (ca. 118 BC?),
the Rosetta Stone (196 BC; Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, Demotic script, and Greek script),
the Ezana Stone (4th C BC; Ge'ez, Sabaean,…
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How can I remember the pronunciation of Danish words?
I've been studying Danish for 6 days.
I can have an easy conversation and ask some basic questions like: hvad koster det? (How much does this cost?).
Anyway, I have a big problem: I can't remember how to pronounce these words.
Why? I've been…
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How can lay teachers help migrants learn a new language?
Due to the increasing number of migrants and refugees (e.g. over 1 million refugees in Europe in 2015), there is a higher need for people who can teach their language to migrants. This raises two types of issues:
There are not always enough…
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Is there any research on the effectiveness of learning verb tables?
I own books with verb tables for French, German and Spanish, i.e. for several languages with rather elaborate verb conjugations. At school, I was made to learn such conjugations for French verbs and quizzed on them. For Dutch, Latin, English and…
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What are the benefits of augmented reality for language learning according to research?
Augmented reality is being used for games, navigation, task support, the visualisation of building projects etc. I can imagine applications related to language learning, such as labelling object around you in the language you are learning.
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Does listening to music of a certain language before learning it help?
I am a avid listener of classical music and have picked up bits and pieces of German from it (I have picked up a little French as well, but I am comfortable with that language to that may be a different story). Will this "learning" help or hurt me…
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Is there any evidence that vocabulary level is a good measure for predicting high economy income later?
In the Wikipedia page of Johnson O' Connor, there is a sentence says (I add the boldness):
A person’s vocabulary level was the best single measure for predicting occupational success in every area.
Wow, so does this mean that everyone in this…
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