Vocabulary learning as a process of semantization

What is it about?

Vocabulary learning is best practiced as a process of 'semantization', i.e. a continuing proces of getting acquainted with verbal forms in their polysemous diversity within varying contexts ('table' as in 'the book lay on the table', 'he keeps a good table', 'the table in the book', etc.). Semantization is a psycholinguistic matter, taking account of linguistic features and doing justice to the principles of learning psychology. Semantization of vocabulary is stimulated by repetitive, elaborative mental practice with the paradigmatic and syntagmatic manifestions of the word.

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Why is it important?

I learned from this article that fostering an adequate vocabulary acquisition process is to be based on both linguistic findings about the word and knowledge about learning principles