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    Vocab-backup Strategy: 5 Sequential Self-learning Steps to Boost Your Vocabulary Knowledge
    Vocab-backup Strategy: 5 Sequential Self-learning Steps to Boost Your Vocabulary Knowledge
    Vocab-backup Strategy: 5 Sequential Self-learning Steps to Boost Your Vocabulary Knowledge
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    Vocab-backup Strategy: 5 Sequential Self-learning Steps to Boost Your Vocabulary Knowledge

    By Adel Alharbi

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    • Do you want to boost your vocabulary knowledge, read and comprehend new texts, and be a good conversationalist?
    • Do you feel that your writing style stays the same every time you put your pen to paper?
    • Do you like to improve your learning habits and enhance your memory and attention?
    • Do you struggle understanding course content in college, or are you a teacher who wants to help your students build their academic vocabulary?
    • Do you like to improve and increase your WORD LISTS faster?

    If any of the above applies to you, I encourage you to read this book. It identifies and offers help for most issues that arise when you encounter new words which might hinder your understanding of a new text or involvement in conversation. These moments of disconnection come from not knowing words. Thinking strategically and improving your autonomous self-learning skills are the basic aims of this book; they will help you to retain new vocabulary into your longer-term memory and develop your language. For over 10 years, I have been a language learner, teacher and researcher. I have carefully researched and gained so much knowledge from these topics (vocabulary acquisition; vocabulary learning strategy). Now, I am ready to put this book in your hands for you to use as a reference. My greatest motivation to write this book was my students. They struggled hard to keep up with academic work and to write excellent college papers. Now, I want to share what I know to help people like them This book contains the self-learning strategy that each learner has but may not know how to use. The Vocab-backup Strategy has been analytically collected, designed, researched, and finally published to enrich your learning habits with the most important skills you need to build up your vocabulary size. With its sequential processes and procedures, you can develop an excellent knowledge of new vocabulary, beginning with Step 1 - Look for synonyms first - up to Step 5 - Remembering Strategy for Writing.

    In this book, the 5 strategy to learn vocabulary is very beneficial for English as a Second Language learners to boost their vocabulary knowledge. It will help them increase and build extra VOCABULARY size for their English Language learning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAdel Alharbi
    Release dateFeb 26, 2017
    ISBN9781370721023
    Vocab-backup Strategy: 5 Sequential Self-learning Steps to Boost Your Vocabulary Knowledge
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    Adel Alharbi

    I am a language and cultural adventurer. I love to talk to the world and be part of it as well. I love to see what I have done and share my insights and works with others. Lastly I love to explore nature of all kinds.

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    Vocab-backup Strategy - Adel Alharbi

    Vocab-Backup Strategy

    5 Sequential Self-Learning Steps to Boost Your Vocabulary Knowledge

    Adel M. Alharbi

    Copyright © 2017 Adel M. Alharbi

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law.

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    To my mom (Fatimah) and Dad (Marzouq)

    who taught me my life’s first vocabulary.

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    PREFACE

    Purpose

    Audience

    About This Book

    INTRODUCTION

    How and Why Did This Strategy Come About?

    Why Learning Vocabulary is Important

    My Vocabulary Story

    Introducing the Vocab-Backup Strategy – VBS

    CHAPTER I

    Step #1: Synonyms First!

    Synonym Strategies Process

    Semantic Map Example

    CHAPTER II

    Step #2: Meaning with Context

    CHAPTER III

    Step #3: Pronunciation Practice Process

    CHAPTER IV

    Step #4: Bookmark Your Vocabulary Search

    CHAPTER V

    Step #5: Remembering Strategy for Writing

    CONCLUSION

    VOCAB-BACKUP 5 STEPS STRATEGY

    ACTIVITIES TO USE VBS

    BIBLIOGRAPHY

    APPENDIX

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

    First and foremost, my absolute thanks are to God [Allah, The Creator] who made our knowledge in words to be seen, developed our language to be spoken in infinite tongues and meanings, and guided our actions to the right path.

    I would like to give my thanks too to all my professors and students who supported me in writing this book and who showed their motivation toward my book topic. Also, I should give a special thanks to my book editor, Dr. Steven Miller, who made this book look better.

    This book’s initial spark came from the immense support and guidance of Dr. Mahmoud Amer, who pushed me to continue investigating this topic. I am especially thankful to the Self-Publishing School for supporting me to walk me through how to publish. I have built more confidence after I joined their program. The pro. class level allowed me to master all the requirements to make my book publishing dream happen. Additional appreciation goes to Dr. Teresa Dalle (my PhD supervisor) for her great assistance and support in guiding my research.

    Finally, I must thank Dr. Rebecca Oxford for her endless endeavors to encourage the flourishing of the field of vocabulary learning strategies and language learning strategies. She inspires and motivates us to think strategically in our language learning and to activate the power of self-regulation in the field of Applied Linguistics.

    Lastly, my endless gratitude and thanks to my family Samar and Rayan who supported me the whole journey to publish this book. Thank you so much for giving me time and courage to make my book publishing happened on time.

    PREFACE

    Purpose

    Vocab-Backup Strategy: 5 sequential self-learning steps to boost your vocabulary knowledge aims to help language learners integrate the best strategies in acquiring new words. The core stimulus of this project came after years of teaching ESL students and noticing that students’ language proficiency in most classes (English, history, grammar, reading, and other writing-intensive subjects) were insufficient, despite their academic achievements. In other words, it is neither their lack of learning motivation nor different styles of communication that lowers their language proficiency, but rather a lack of building a sufficiently sized new vocabulary to use the language. Years of research in language learning has shown that most language learners prefer to use a strategy that they can depend on, and most start with vocabulary learning strategy during the process of learning. For this basic reason, I am offering this book for students to succeed in their academic journey and fulfil their course requirements to achieve higher vocabulary knowledge. Frequently, teachers’ frustration about students’ progress was mostly recognized as due to a failure of vocabulary building. This motivated me to contemplate this topic and offer a workable method to learners and teachers as well. Another purpose of this book is to evoke the use of vocabulary learning strategies in the mind of language learners.

    I should tell you here that this book is supplementary data

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