Abstract
English teachers at junior middle schools often employ traditional vocabulary teaching techniques such as L1 equivalents, word lists, pictures, and word formation rules. They reinforce the students' retention of vocabulary by asking them to read aloud the words repeatedly and copy the new words as homework. In this study, suggestions are given to improve English vocabulary teaching techniques at junior middle schools.
Highlights
Vocabulary is considered as the synonym of lexicon and lexis and defined as the stock of words in a given language (Jackson & Amvela, 2000:1)
It is suggested that more attention should be paid to vocabulary, and effective vocabulary teaching techniques deserve research so as to best help learners to acquire, store and retrieve words in the target language
Classical vocabulary teaching techniques as well as some new methods have been studied in vocabulary researches (Nation & Newton, 1997; Sökmen, 1997; Web, 2007; Balci & Cakir, 2012)
Summary
Vocabulary is considered as the synonym of lexicon and lexis and defined as the stock of words in a given language (Jackson & Amvela, 2000:1). It plays an essential role in oral communication since words are the components of human's speeches. Foreign or second language teachers prefer teaching grammar while vocabulary is likely to be neglected. Maybe it is because grammar is a finite system, whereas vocabulary is not (Sheehan, 2004). It is suggested that more attention should be paid to vocabulary, and effective vocabulary teaching techniques deserve research so as to best help learners to acquire, store and retrieve words in the target language
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