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The game currently contains 6,000 levels and 74,000 extra master levels that players can access after completing the first 6,000, which are repeated from the first 6,000. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Additionally, Wordscapes includes a 'Daily Puzzle' feature, offering players a new set of challenges each day to solve and gain additional rewards.
Vocabulary learning goals help in deciding the kind of language to be learnt and taught. Nation (2000) suggests three types of information to keep in mind while deciding on the goals. 1)number of words in the target language. 2) Number of words known by the native speakers. 3) The number of words required to use another language. [1]
Vocabulary – The set of words in a given language that a speaker is familiar with, which can be subdivided into: a) words which are recognized upon hearing or reading; and b) words which a person feels comfortable using in speech.
A vocabulary (also known as a lexicon) is a set of words, typically the set in a language or the set known to an individual. The word vocabulary originated from the Latin vocabulum, meaning "a word, name". It forms an essential component of language and communication, helping convey thoughts, ideas, emotions, and information.
Language acquisition is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language.In other words, it is how human beings gain the ability to be aware of language, to understand it, and to produce and use words and sentences to communicate.
Once children have gained a level of vocabulary knowledge, new words are learned through explanations using familiar, or "old" words. This is done either explicitly, when a new word is defined using old words, or implicitly, when the word is set in the context of old words so that the meaning of the new word is constrained. [ 55 ]
Metaphoric: concepts such as time and money, business and sex, systems and water, all share a large portion of the same vocabulary; Grammatical: it uses rules based on sampling of the lexical corpus; Register-specific: it uses the same word differently and/or less frequently in different contexts
Speaking of vocabulary, anyone who has read the Harry Potter series will notice that a lot of uncommon words have been used by J.K. Rowling. For example I had to check out the meaning of frisson. Children of all ages and backgrounds read the novels without so much of a complaint. =Nichalp «Talk»= 04:59, September 10, 2005 (UTC)