Peculiarities of learning lexis while studying foreign languages

Straipsnyje nagrinėjami žodžių išmokimo ypatumai, mokantis užsienio kalbų, pateikiama glausta psichologinio savęs pažinimo metodika, aptariami psichologiniai, sociolingvistiniai bei didaktiniai veiksniai, kuriais remiantis galima sėkmingai dirbti su nauja leksika, pasirinkti sau tinkamus metodus bei pratybų tipus ir pasiekti optimalių rezultatų, mokantis naujų žodžių.The word is the most important unit of a language, so mastering new lexis is considered to be one of the most urgent talking points of learning/teaching foreign languages. While learning/teaching foreign languages it is essential to develop learners' autonomy, introduce/leam methods of learning/teaching a foreign language as well as the psychological, sociolinguistic and didactic factors that influence the success of learning/teaching. Since a characteristic feature of learning lexis is autonomy, it is important to recognize one's learning type and be aware of one's own intrinsic learning/ teaching methodology. One of the forms of defining one's individual type is a test of associating correlations. The article gives a survey of psychological factors and their correlation with the ways of choosing activities, which helps to improve the quality of mastering new lexis while learning foreign languages