Issue 29 – The Psychology of Keeping Vocabulary Records
by Oscar Ho (ELED Year 3 student 2020-2021) As linguist David Wilkins (1972) notes, “while without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed” (p.111). This oft-cited quote explains why it is common for language learning beginners to become easily exasperated when being asked to interact in the target language – …