Teaching Vocabulary Research Paper

How to Teach Vocabulary

People tend to take a learning process for granted, something that appears naturally and the thing that is evidently going to happen. Especially when we talk about learning and acquiring language and one of its most important parts, vocabulary. By vocabulary we mean all the words, phrases and collocations, basically, all the language resources. It is amazing how we have the opportunity to learn something new every moment, and if we do not think about it as a never-ending process, we are not aware how powerful mechanism our body and mind are. Vocabulary teaching and learning could be the most interesting parts of the teaching-learning process if we try various creative methods and if we adapt to our learners.

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We all know that a single word has a combined net of meaning, understanding, and connections, which can result of children using words long before they completely master their meaning. But on the other hand, the full understanding of words is not possible, and adults also use some words without knowing their full meaning, e.g. thermodynamics, periodic table, etc.

We can say that a person knows a word if he or she can recognize its meaning and therefore, an average 18-year-old adult speaker knows about 20,000 words out of around 54,000 existing in the English language. Furthermore, native speaker child understands around 3000 to 4000 words and word families and average second language student after 5 years of continuous learning perceives around 2,000 words, which is approximately recommended 500 frequently used words per year in the excellent learning conditions.

Knowing the word means to understand what is involved, to recall it is needed, use it in a grammatically accurate way, use it in the accurate situation, knowing its positive and negative associations, and its pure grammatical