Language Barriers In Second Language

Introduction:

Vocabulary or lexicon is one of the most important parts in learning second language.

Learning vocabulary, of course is very important, too. According to Knight ˝learning words can be considered to be the most important aspect of second language learning.Alessi and Dwyer (2008) point that ˝the lack of vocabulary and frustration of looking up new words are the main obstacles of second language readers˝.

Hunt and Belgar (1998) offered incidental learning, explicit instruction, and independent strategy, to reach to vocabulary learning. The most important part that had vital role was incidental vocabulary learning. Researchers accepted the fact that incidental vocabulary acquisition happens in second language learning. According to Huckin &coady ˝except for the first few thousand most common words, L2 vocabulary is largely acquired incidentally.

In addition, Hucking &Coady (1999), asserted in a review of an article about incidental vocabulary learning that much second vocabulary learning occurs incidentally while the learner is engaged in extensive reading˝ (p.181).

It is exciting to mention that children in a short period of time are able to learn their fist language through reading by the help of incidental vocabulary learing.some researchers have suggested different procedures to raise learning of incidental vocabulary. First: using dictionary, second guessing the word through context, and third: glossing.

A successful reading depends on high vocabulary knowledge. There is a mutual direction between vocabulary and reading, as vocabulary increase the comprehension of the reading and reading causes high knowledge of