Teaching vocabulary is a key factor when learning a foreign language. However, there are many teachers who do not teach vocabulary, or who just introduce it to students by repeating or reading it in the lesson. The main goals of my work are to emphasize the importance of teaching vocabulary and to introduce ways and techniques of presenting vocabulary in the classroom. The first section will define the meaning of vocabulary, and explain why it is essential for students to learn new vocabulary, and the
for finding solutions to problems and organizing knowledge and building skills. Kafipour and Naveh state that it is crucial for students to recognize the meanings of the novel words in a reading text in order to comprehend it. Learners’ familiarity with the vocabulary learning strategies facilitates them to understand a reading text. This recognition of vocabulary learning strategies
intentional vocabulary learning through extensive reading. There will be a brief look at the incidental vs. intentional vocabulary learning. After that, the impotence of extensive reading on vocabulary in second language learning will be summarized. Finally, the previous studies relevant to the current study will be reviewed. 2.2. Importance of vocabulary learning Vocabulary is central to English language teaching and and of critical importance to EFL learners because without sufficient vocabulary students
THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK 2.1 Passage sight vocabulary Understanding the reading passage begins by the ability to recognize the meaning of words, which is related with the vocabulary knowledge. Aside from the topic familiarity and background knowledge, vocabulary is a main concern that affects the reading comprehension success. Vocabulary itself means the compilation of words which carry the meaning we want to express. Tavakoli and Hayati (2011) also added that, vocabulary is important since it is the words
listening, reading, writing, grammar and vocabulary. Each of the six students is aware of their own difficulties and weaknesses. The finding indicated that all students interviewed perceived that they have some difficulties in different skills but speaking is the hardest skill to learn among the four language skills. At first, six participants illustrated that among the common difficulties in speaking faced by students were related to grammar, lack of vocabulary. Only one of female participants mentioned
Serjeantson (1962) writes in her books that England has always welcomed the alien and hundreds of words of non-English origin are part of English vocabulary indistinguishable from the native ones. More than sixty percent of English words have Latin origin while it is the case in more than ninety percent of the words with respect to technology and science domain (Green, 1990). While containing 178 Anglo-Saxon roots, the English language consists of 280 more roots out which almost all are Greek and
Accordingly, this approach is successful for language learning because learners learn best by doing (Waguey & Hufana, 2012). This approach uses authentic data for classroom activities which gives importance on meaning to communicate in the real world. Task-based learning activities provide a method to speed up student’s language development in different situations while in the classroom (Thanghun, 2012). In this sense, Task-Based Instruction (TBI)
what is intend to be transmitted. Today society inherited, knowledge have been pass down from many years and in many forms and reading is a prominent key, a lot of what we know today are amalgam of researches and observation that has been discovered and used to ease the concept of life, discoveries are made by an individual or group of people but are imperative to most if not all of us in many ways. To help the spread of this knowledge to benefit all, the information are stored by the forms of languages
its popularity and importance all over the universe. Also word acquisition and identification of words rapidly as a skill is a major correlate of reading (Nathan & Stanovich, 1991). So students’ success with sight word recognition is a critical part in their achievement as lifelong readers (Weakland, 2013). This chapter is divided into two sections; theoretical framework and empirical research. In the theoretical framework, the researcher discussed about: the importance of reading, reading
Abstract Vocabulary learning has always been a major concern for those who want to learn a second language. The present study aimed at determination the role of games on kid's vocabulary learning. The study was conducted with twenty students they were divided into the experimental group and the control group . The result with the experimental group was superior to those of the control group. Games not only bring fun to the class, but they also motivate students and build their confidence