Teaching vocabulary

TEACHING VOCABULARY

• Some assumptions about vocabulary teaching
• Vocabulary development will have to be given much more prominence in language teaching than it now gets
• The assumption that learners must somehow learn vocabulary but teachers should not really try to teach it should be changed
• Teachers also need to encourage their students to take more responsibility for developing their own vocabulary
• Grammar Translation Method emphasizes the learning of grammar rules and structures not vocabulary learning
• Many English language teachers like to stress grammar over vocabulary because grammar is a finite system,

• 05/04/20

• Dr. Hanaa El-Baz