OnBoostingtheStudyfActiveWordsThroughSemantic―association.docVIP

OnBoostingtheStudyofActiveWordsThroughSemantic―association 　　【Abstract】As a component of language proficiency， lexical ability is essential to language learners， and a flurry of scholarly work in the last several decades has confirmed its importance to the academic world as well as language teaching （e.g. Coady Huckin 1997， Nation 1990， 2001， Schimit McCarthy 1997， Singleton 1999 etc.）. This paper aims to illustrate that it is feasible to use semantic-association method to boost the study of active words by raising language learners’ consciousness and activating the associative networks of