THE IMPORTANCE OF ENRICHED VOCABULARY

The Importance of Enriched Vocabulary

An enriched vocabulary means knowing the names of a variety of things.This learning starts when we are born - some would even argue it starts before birth. Research shows that parents that speak to their children are enriching vocabulary skills in the process. A robust vocabulary improves all areas of communication like listening, speaking, reading and writing.

Children must learn about prefixes, and suffixes :

• . Prefixes showing negation without, no, asexual, anonymous, illegal, immoral, not invalid,

irreverent, unskilled not, absence nonbreakable, antacid, antipathy,etc.

• suffixes, the word becomes the adjective national, the adverb nationally, and the verb nationalize.

See what words you can come up with that use the following suffixes. Typical noun suffixes are -ence, -ance, -or, -er, -ment, -list, -ism, -ship, -ency, -sion, -tion, -ness, -hood, -dom • Typical verb suffixes are -en, -ify, -ize, -ate • Typical adjective suffixes are -able, -ible, -al, -tial, -tic, -ly, -ful, -ous, -tive, -less, -ish, -ulent • The adverb suffix is -ly

Parents often seem to naturally speak to children in a sing and song, up-and-down tone, slightly higher in pitch, and at a slower rate than adult speech.  This "parentese" holds a child's attention longer - a powerful tool to enrich vocabulary by talking to young children.

Play word games with friends. Try Boggle, Scrabble, or Catch-Phrase.There are so many great games out there to teach you new words. If a friend comes up with a word that you don't know, ask them what it means.

When children have a relatively large vocabulary compared to their peers, it is a HUGE advantage when learning to read.  Reading comprehension depends on knowing the meaning of words in a written passage.  When a word is already in a child's vocabulary, the process of connecting that written word with the spoken word is easier and faster.

Parents who talk to their children throughout the day are giving them a gift. The language children learn helps them enjoy and understand the world around them and helps prepare them to become lifelong learners.  Research shows that children with larger vocabularies are better readers. Knowing many words helps children recognize and understand written words.

Expanding your vocabulary helps a person communicate and understand more. Vocabulary is typically learning some new words which may have a same meaning from what you already know. Learning more vocabulary also helps an individual to overcome their fear of reading comprehension, public speaking, reporting and writing. One will be self-confident as he or she presents his work that had become idealistic through his or her vocabulary the best possible way. Vocabulary can be learned not by only reading your dictionary but also being aware of your surroundings. Reading newspaper, magazine, novels and listening to public speakers also helps to expand your vocabulary.