Vocabulary Map
I developed this vocabulary map when I was at university.
A new and creative language learning tool.
An entirely new idea.
‘A
brilliant and most useful invention’
Dr Christy Machale, of
A new way to learn vocabulary
When one learns vocabulary one word at a time the process is
very slow…… dog tv radio dictionary
spanner. I myself became bored with this
method: surely there must be a better
way. Surely learning words in this order,
with no connections would be pointless.
But yet most students learn by this method.
If one learns vocabulary a word at a time it takes for ever.
However, If one learns a vocabulary item say inventor, then learn words morphologically
derived from it like to invent, invention, inventive, inventively
one learns more vocabulary.
More so if one then
learn swords semantically related to it like creative or to discover one learns
yet more vocabulary.
And finally I designed this exciting tool which can be seen
overleaf:
Nouns
, stuff found in location, equipment for verb, people, famous people
who use it (famous examples in second language culture), equipment
ADJECTIVES
Weak strong
Good bad
Informal formal
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
ADVERBS
VERBS
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Interjections,
expletives
Homonyms, homophones and homographs both in first language
and second language
Rhymes in second language and first language
Synonyms Near synonyms, taxonomic sisters blue red green
Antonyms and near antonyms, reverses, converses
Member/ collection
Stuff written on second language packet, object itself
Formal nouns/trademarks 
Psychic, psychic noun, adjective
Words expected to be found in same paragraph
Scientific (variants) Names of stuff i.e. planets: mars,
Jupiter, Venus, Pluto, Neptune etc
Idiomatic expressions, set phrases, catchphrases
Contextualised examples
Types of
A random word
Words found next to it on map: this allows closed class
words on map.
Clothing associated with it 
What it helps you to do
What it can be used for
Shops businesses associated with it
A person associated with it
Look up word in dictionary (both first language and second
language) and look for words in definition
Variations in second language and first language usage. See
words in context doctor ishi hakase
Stuff that exists in l2 that doesn’t exist in l1, and vice
versa.
Works of art associated with it
Location
Affixes: Prefix and suffix modifications
Words put on it clockWISE
Forms it appears in
Stuff found on it
Someone who works there, job, occupation
Clitics
Measure words, counters for nouns ‘metres’
Buildings associated with it
Slang dialect terms for it
Radio and TV programs associated with it
Brand names, inventions, formal ideas associated with it.
Authentic second language examples
Adverts
What else can be done there?
What you feed it be it abstract or concrete
What a noun on the map might say this noun doesn’t have to
be animate
What one does with it who/what uses it
What material is it made from, be it abstract or concrete?
Stuff contained in it be it abstract or concrete
Person responsible for it
Something the something on the map might say. Note this
doesn’t have to be a human being
Motivation
Things made from it
SECOND LANGUAGE culture mnemonics associated with it
Official nouns
Packaging stuff comes in
Official, nouns,
Male or female
Events, competitions
Positive and negative versions
Institutions associated with it
Awards and qualifications associated with it
Machines associated with it
Young/old
The instructions for it ‘recipe’
What group does it belong to?
Group term
Books, video games, music, web sites, comic books, magazines,
films and other medium about or associated with it.
Mythologies and legends and folklore associated with it
Literary references to stuff on map
Books associated with it
Famous quotes associated with it
Allusions associated with it
Laws associated with it
‘ ’
Rules associated with it
Things it represents in second
language culture ie blue represents security in Japanese culture
What needs to be done before one does it
Words contained in it shadow overshadow
Who, what, when, where, why, how, and in what way?
What can be made from it?
Brand names, companies associated
with it
Famous people in second language who
do this real life people,
fictional characters, film stars, and heroes associated with the word. Also names of
famous animals, machines: lassie red rum, eurotran
Part whole relationship, cat:
paw whiskers tail, tuna, chunks
Inclusion. Animal, feline, cat
not just for verbs: wash: clean, polish, rub, wax, dry,
- Agent: deliberately performs the action (e.g. Bill
ate his soup quietly)
- Experiencer: receives sensory or emotional input (e.g.
The smell of lilies filled Jennifer's nostrils).
- Theme: is the recipient of an action but does not
change its state (e.g. Bill gave Mary a present).
- Patient: undergoes the action and has its state changed
(e.g. The falling rocks crushed the car)
- Instrument: used to carry out the action (e.g. Jamie
cut the ribbon with a pair of scissors).
- Cause: mindlessly performs the action (e.g. An
avalanche destroyed the ancient temple).
- Location: where the action occurs (e.g. Johnny and
Linda played carelessly in the park).
- Goal: what the action is directed towards (e.g.
The caravan continued on toward the distant oasis).
- Source where the action originated (e.g. The rocket
was launched from Central Command).
- Function
- Subject, object, verb
- Effect
Audience
Patient
Words found next to it in dictionary horse horse radish
Beneficiary
Fixed expressions
Use the morphology e.g. English Key to usage
Idioms, compound idioms, full idioms, semi idioms, proverbs,
stock phrases, catchphrases, allusions, quotations, idiomatic similes,
discoursal expressions: social formulae, clichés, connectives, conversational gambits,
stylistic formulae, stereotypes and slogans.
Google a list of idioms in second language to first language and search
the page to idiomatic expressions that contain said words first language idioms should be translated
and second language idioms memorised
The big sentence, containing all words on map
Kanji reversals, palindromes: spark 火花 is a palindrome of花火
firework
gateman / nametag
anagrams
anagrams can be used for
kanji
exonym
endonym?
Demonym
Ethnonym
eponym
capitonym/
heterophone
onomatopoeia
paronym
patronymic
etymology
word written with capitals
words written on it
acronyms
abbrieviations
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- Alliteration: Assonance:
- Consonance:
- Holorime:
- Spoonerism:
- make a cross word with the word
- same pronunciation, or reading written with
different kanji
- your own definition of the word
- phonetic reversal as opposed to written
reversal
- polysemy
- heterosemy
Holonymy as an opposite to
meronymy
- lexical chain
- paronym
- collocations
- semantic field (words in context)
- fixed expressions associated with it
- words found within the word, scrabble
- connotation
- implication
- archaism
- neologism
- original usage
- old usages
- internet terms for it
- slang terms for it
- overlaps
- technical, scientific words for it ie it’s
genus
- words about it from different academic
fields.
- Second language culture associated with it
- Things that have taken over from it ie the
Ipod from the mp3 player
- Things it has taken over from ie radio from the gramophone
Write a Crossword clue for it.
Misusages what people think it means
Differences in usage between people.(native speakers)
Onomatopoeia related with it.
More polite words for it
Passive active and middle variants
Swear words
Jokes
Songs
Internet sites associated with it.
Swap one kanji/letter for another letter.
Transitive and intransitive
Information it gives
Perspective on it
Deictic
Dialogue
Ellipsis
Ergative
Finite
Infinite
Mass nouns
Count nouns
Compound nouns verbs
Active passive middle
Register
Recipient
Qualifier
Past
Present
Future
‘it’s difference’
Auxillaries
Contexts which lend
different meanings
Hyperbole
understatement
Idiolect variations
what different people mean it to be
Index register
Use the
word in a sentence.
colour
numbers
signs and
symbols
unrelated
words same start route routine
physic
physic adjective verb
play
scrabble and other word games with it
change one
syllable at a time
mispronunciations
dialect
variants, American English British English
collective
words
it’s
difference
misusages
absolute
meaning
theme
rheme
addition
information
it gives
adversative
opponent
perspectives
on it
compound
verbs
deictic
dialogue
ellipsis
ergative
active,
passive, middle.
Potentiality
Semantic
range
REGISTER
Recipient
Qualifier
Context
Hyperbole
Idiolect
variants what different people mean it to mean in different situations
Index
register
adjunct
cause and
affect
alliteration
alternative
apposition
opposition
carrier
slang/argot
technical
words
hypotaxis
parataxis
interpersonal
catenative
probability
range
recycling
TRACE
(Derrida)
Swear words
Celebrities
associated with it
Performing
and visual arts associated with it
Games and
toys
Original
meaning, etymology
Sports and
exercise
Mass
Media
Food
Health and
the past
Historical
usages
Mathematical
and scientific terms associated with it
Beliefs,
thought patterns associated with it.
Technology
associated with it
Political
stuff associated with it
Politically
correct
Politically
incorrect
Academic
subject associated with it
Theories
associated with it
Learning
stuff associated with it
What it
used to mean
Old words
for it (lutetia
Transparent/untransparent
Arbitrary
motivated
Words for
it in l2 but not in l1 assate ottotoi
Encyclopedia
definition
Facts
associated with it
Trivia
associated with it
Poetry
associated with it
Childrens
words for it
Old peoples
words for it
Computing
terms for it
Rebuses
Create a
false etymology
Xenonym
Foreign
words for it (Londres Rondon)
Pseudonym
retronym
WORD GAMES
Boggle
Family
Fortunes
criminal
vocab associated with it
kuruma
kuma –
daruma
rukuma
kumara
Add,
change, take away or turn around syllables or kana. like kanji reverses. see what you can do with different syllables
Add take,
change voicing marks in Japanese
do the same
with different letters
perspectives
on the word
discussion
of the word
iyoiyo
iyouiyou: changing intonation
spelling
mistakes spelling differences
type into
google.
lines
associated with it
facts
statistics
masculine or feminine rhymes
half rhyme
euphemism
broken
rhyme
tautogram
zeugma
buzzwords
synecdoche
bromide?
Chiasmus
Tmesis
Metaplasm
Merism
Man bites
dog trope
Metalepsis
Hypothora
Hypallage
Paliology
Parachesis
Paradiastole
Paraprosdokian
parasyntheton
paromoiosis
tautology
pleonasm
Pars pro toto
pathetic
fallacy
personification
phrop
ploce
Polyptoton
Polysyndeton
praegnans
constructio is
Procatalepsis
Prolepsis
Prosopopoeia
Prothesis
Pun
“scheme”
Spoonerism
Synæresis
Synalepha
Syncope
Synesis
Totum pro
parte
Tricolon
Difrasismo
Catachresis
Illegal/legal
Nick names
implies
infers
indicates
acronyms
hypotypsis
ekphrasis
good or bad
perspectives on it
what it is,
what it isn’t
what it means
what it doesn’t mean
sarcasm and
other tropes
slips of
the tongue
word
classes
anaphora
cataphora
childish/childlike
chiascuro
jew nersey
water water
noun verb
drip drip
noun verb
fake
codes
argument,
discuss it
ambiguity
teacher
student peer
totslly
honesty as a trope
kassai
kasai
mo mou
out of the
ordinary stylistics “goodies in history book” an impressive name but an even
more impressive ….
similar
kanji堂堂、営営
same kanji different meanings
Latin
for all occasions type stuff- Stuff that
is in l2 but not l1
same
pronunciation, or reading written with different kanji -
Swap one kanji/letter for another letter.
kuruma
kuma –
daruma
rukuma
kumara
Add,
change, take away or turn around syllables or kana. like kanji reverses. see what you can do with different
syllables-Add take, change voicing marks in Japanese-do the same with different
letters-
iyoiyo
iyouiyou: changing intonation –
The map lists ways of generating related
vocabulary. The vocabulary map is a
great tool for helping one to learn vocabulary and should be used in
conjunction with a thesaurus. For a
examples of how the map is used see the example sheets, appendixes 1,2,3. As well as helping to learn the language the
map also helps one learn about the culture by introducing brand names and
famous people in second language. Put
stuff in different colours for stuff specific culturally to second language. the user may use different colours for different genders
symbols for different registers and humble and honorific stuff, upwards arrows
and down ward arrows highlight easy to learn words i.e. first language loan
word: terebi Etc Include slang words but highlight them in different colours.
Include swearwords but highlight them in different colours Include different
dialects and registers. Think abstractly! Thinking abstractly in a language
helps you to learn it! Apply the map to
every new item Include loads of info about verbs: valency, verb group,
etc. This map is a great tool for
reading a second language text if one picks one word in a text and thoroughly
maps around it the whole text may be read….
Highlight lexically related words invent invention inventor,
creator.
Dog kennel bark bone hound hunt guard protect lover snoopy
paw tail fur nail bitch and so forth
Tv tv times aerial, ceefax teletext remote control machine
device program for more detailed examples see the appendix
Instructions for the map
Choose a word think of a noun associated with this word,
repeat process until boredom/failure/death. Do the same with verbs and
adjectives and adverbs putting them in order of intensity
Google a list of idioms in second language to first language
and search the page to idiomatic expressions that contain said words go down
the map thinking of examples for each channel.
Learn the vocabulary you have learnt
Google a list of idioms in second language to first language
and search the page to idiomatic expressions that contain said words to find
‘idioms’
I googled Japanese idioms and searched for neko to find
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Karite Kita Neko no Yoo |
as shy and quiet as a kitten |
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An internet search engine and a thesaurus should be used in
conjunction with the map
I googled Japanese cat myths to find out that
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Japanese
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(http://rulingcatsanddogs.com/cat-legends-feline-myths-kitty-fables-ancient-folklores.htm)
I didn’t know the above info and this helped me to
understand Japanese culture.
After the first word continue putting the other words
through the map
Examples of mappings can be seen below: these examples should be written down in a
notebook and translated into second language
Examples
Inventor: nouns Inventor ,invention discoverer, originator, creator,
architect, author. Creation discovery development, device innovation,
contraction, gadget, design. Verbs Create, discover, devise, formulate,
originate, conceive, concoct, make up, to copyright, to patent
Interjections: aha!
Adjectives: Done before, not original, unmarketable, has
potential, brilliant,. Creative, artistic. groundbreaking. Discovery of the generation. Antonyms: thief,
plagiarist, to steal, to fraud, to plagiarize
Inventor’s club, formal nouns: British copyright act,
patenting office, laws in second language, intellectual property, wipo
Location workshop library. Reading, working
Shadow,
silhouette, darkness, clouds, gloomy, dusk, eclipse, puppets,, overhead
projector, detective, gutter, espionage creepy, covert, to shade, 2 sneak, to
overshadow, apex, mysterious, unknown, anonymous, shade, overcast, light, evil,
dark, sadistic,
Salmon fish roe hake etc stroke fin, gills, swim,
float, stream, to fish, fishing, fishing rod, net, brine, ring pull, can, cat,
pet food, hook, hamper, reel, lining, wet, bank, reel, egg, gills, lake, pond,
seaweed, lifeguard, can, can opener, label, frog, life jacket, pier, chunks,
salmon, expensive, tasty, brand, pier, amphibian, mud, upstream, salmon brands
in second language
Maze, labyrinth,
monster, fear, maize (homophone), pit, trap, theme park, adventurer, map,
footprints, footsteps, fiend ogre gigantic massive, to ensnare, voyager,
adventurer, path, road, gravel, walls, disasters, pit fall, spikes, hedge,
timidly, scarily, baroque examples of famous mazes in second language
Radio speakers,
Ariel, play, stop, record, to tune, radio stations in second language,
frequency, to transmit, engine, plug, cable, ‘testing, testing 1,2,3’, DJ,
phone in shows, radio stations in second language, presenters in second
language, listener, to broadcast, sound waves, music, musical, musical
notation, switch board ,cardboard box, vibration, volume, remote control,
button, handle, switch, CD, CD player, stereo, mono, surround sound. Fast
forward, rewind, to pause, letting the letting the record skip, to receive
signals, quietly attentively enthusiastically long wave fm mw
Dust to dust dust
cloth polish, n,v,adj, nationality, to tidy tidy furniture purify to wipe, to mop
a mop a sponge to scrub to disinfect stain, to stain
University to
teach debt bullshit to be in debt to exploit study, nv, corruption union
security campus accommodation
Bank overdraught
loan cheque atm cash credit debit bank manager
to pay in to cash a cheque bureau d’exchange building society money bag
cheque book interest to barter balance bank account depression overdrawn equity
investment stocks and shares stock broker paying in envelope pin number
depression stock market bull/bear market
To eat food all
you can eat chopsticks to nibble, swallow to chew to devour corkscrew tin
opener chopping board boil roast brew stew poach grill portion pour to feed
to cook disgusting tasty delicious food technology chef waiter
tablecloth cutlery hygiene (who’s jean?) hob temperature to grate grater to
melt to freeze to whisk peel noun and verb restraint café to season to chat to
date recipe groceries produce timer tin foil supplement sauce dessert starter
snack tin opener
Book to scan to
consult to hoard to exchange to flick through antique engrossing encyclopaedia
pamphlet atlas phrasebook a grammar a volume a text Guinness book of records a
comic book, graphic novel a manual exercise book a famous encyclopaedia in Japan,
dictionary thesaurus to publish to book library conversation philosophy ideas
creativity author publisher pages paragraphs emotions sentences barcode words
metaphors binding cover manuscript draft text(s) there is no friend as loyal as
a book
Relaxation freetime bookcase bookkeeper bookkeeping nook
mark readers, a j reader knowledge
Information ideas happiness famous publishers in Japan
Japanese fictional characters magnifying glass readership loners academics hook.
The above is the vocabulary map. The map is a brilliant tool
for language learning and is of use to learners of all ages.
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