I have my first year students keep a 'vocabulary notebook' where they write any new words that they learn or ones they don't know that they want to find out about. I have found this to be a very effective strategy in my own language learning, but like any practice, you need to make the effort, and make it work for you.
I was grading them for completion today and came across this gem:
Migraine (n.): an extremely severe paroxysmal headache
I would bet my salary that the only word he understood in that definition was 'an'
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...and depending on how much philosophy he does we might even want to ask if he could really understand 'an' without any understanding of what it was attached to :P.
In this case, the acronym "LOL" is accurate. When I read this I literally burst out laughing. Trouble is, I'm at work, and people were looking at me funny.
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