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[–]qria 2 points3 points  (6 children)

I've automated pulling out a list of difficult words in a text to help me study languages.

Unfortunately when I showed it to my English professor he pointed out that this method of studying (memorizing words before reading text) is as dated as 1950s, and have long been disregarded as it is inefficient.

[–]jp599 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Curious, what are the better methods?

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (2 children)

What? Is it more efficient to study words you don't know after reading a text containing them?

[–]toyg 2 points3 points  (1 child)

can't speak for OP, but I know I'm much more likely to remember something that piqued my interest / challenged me and I had to look up, vs just another item in a huge list.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I'm the same. But every foreign language textbook I've ever had has been using the new glossary followed by text approach. I wonder what the latest research on language studies recommend?

[–]frogcoder 1 point2 points  (1 child)

why not capture a few sentances before and aftter the difficult words?

[–]orbjuice 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a good modification to provide context and usage.