AITCHINSON’S STAGES

• What is stage one?

  Labelling
• what does the labelling stage involve?

  making the link between the sounds of particular words and the objects to which is being referred
• What is stage 2?

  Packaging
• what does the networking stage involve?

  making connections between words and understanding the similarities and opposites in meaning
• what is stage 3?

  networking
• what does the packaging stage involve?

  understanding a words range of meaning
• what is a hypernym?

  general word for a group or generic list of things
• what is a hyponym?

  more specific word in the sub group of a hypernym