Remembering the words by using Vocabulary Radical Affix: focusing on the roots
Abstract新年新诗会: It is the most important and permanent thing to master the vocabulary in the English learning as a foreign language. However, everyone that has ever learned about English know that remembering words not only waste time and energy, but with scant success. Especially as a college student with a vocabulary about 3000-6000, the words will be much difficult to master than the in middle school. So we need u some method to let it become easier. This paper mainly discuss the using of Vocabulary Radical Affix, with such way, the most important thing is to remember the root, so then this paper fouces on the remembering of the root and some uful and practical way of how to remember the root.
水母养殖Key words: remembering words; root; affix; suffix; prefix; Vocabulary Radical Affix
词根词缀记忆法记单词——以词根记忆为主困难的英语
摘要：词汇学习是学生英语学习中最大的课题，也是永久的课题。但凡学过英语的人都知
道，词汇的记忆不仅费时、费力，而且往往收效甚微。尤其是大学生，在掌握了3000到6000左右的词汇后，要想扩展词汇比中学来之更加的不易，所以我们需要使用一些记忆词汇的方法让记忆单词变得简单些。这篇论文主要讨论在使用词根词缀记忆法时词根的记忆方法。重点讲解词根记忆的有效的方法，从而能更好更方便的利用词根词缀法。
关键词：单词记忆自评报告怎么写；词根；词缀；后缀；前缀；词根词缀记忆法
Remembering the words by using Vocabulary Radical Affix: focusing on the roots
English Department 2012 (06)
1. Introduction
Wilkins, an English linguist said: “Without pronunciation and grammar, man can still transfer some information, but without vocabulary, we can not deliver any message”. One cannot say he has acquired a new language without grasping its vocabulary and u it fre
ely. At prent in China, veral English tests are ud as a mean to detect English vocabulary, thus requirements for vocabulary were put forward: CET-4 need 4000-4200, CET-6 need 5500, PETS-5 need 7500, TEM-4 need 8000, TOEFL/IELTS need 9000, TEM-8/GRE need 9000-13000. From this list, we can learn that it is the most important and permanent thing to master the vocabulary in the English learning as a foreign language 学生周总结(Li Bingmei 105). However, everyone that has ever learned about English know that remembering words not only waste time and energy, but with scant success. Especially as a college student with a vocabulary about 3000-6000, the words will be much difficult to master than the in middle school.
As a result of the phenomenon mentioned above, a great amount of methods were roud to help enlarge the English vocabulary. The most common ways are Word Map, Homophonic Memory Law，Circulating Memory，Vocabulary Radical Affix and so on(Duan Youguo 162). Among which the most popular method is the Vocabulary Radical Affix, both in English educators and learners. Mainly becau learning English with this method, twice as much can be accomplished with half the effort. The practice also proved
to be feasible by teaching onelf.
2. Literature review
First and foremost, we need to know what is morpheme. As pointed out by David Crystal in his book A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, the morpheme is “the minimal distinctive unit of grammar, and the central concern of morphology”. The morpheme, accordingly, can be considered as the smallest functioning unit in the composition of words (231). For instance, teach is a word, and so is teacher. But structurally speaking, teach and teacher are somewhat different whereas teach cannot be broken down into any smaller unites, teacher can. The word 电脑装双系统teacher can be divided into two grammatically significant elements: teach and –er. Such forms as students, pens can also be divided into two grammatically significant elements: student健康保健知识 or pen and –s. The minimal grammatically units are called morphemes.
Types of morphemes can be summed up as the following diagram (Zhang Hua 21):
Free =free root=a word: ham
Morpheme bound root: -dict-: contradition
Bound inflection: bravos
affix prefix: in-: inappropriate
derivational
suffix: -tion: revolution
2.1 Affixes
Affixes are linguistic fragments that are attached to words or word elements to modify meaning or change function. Almost all affixes are bound morphemes becau few can be ud as independent words. A小沙百灵ccording to the functions of affixes, we can put them into two groups: inflectional affixes, e.g. -s, -ed, -ing; derivational affixes, e.g. pre-, ex-, de-
, -less, -dom and –ic (Zhang Weiyou 56). According to the distribution of them in formation，affixes can be divided into prefixes and suffixes. All the prefixes are derivational affixes, in other word, they are ud to form the new words, while the suffixes can be both inflectional affixes and derivational affixes. So the affixes mentioned above also can be divided into prefixes: pre-, ex- and de-, suffixes: -less, -dom, -ic, -s,-ed and –ing (Yang Chunhui and Zhang Xuan 57).
