The Principles of Teaching and Learning Vocabulary Effectively

Safa Khalifa Al Talib

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The Principles of Teaching and Learning Vocabulary Effectively

Safa Khalifa Al Talib

Published in Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 8, Issue 4)

Received: 7 August 2022 Accepted: 17 October 2022 Published: 28 October 2022

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Vocabulary is words of a language, including single items and phrases or chunks of several words which covey a particular meaning. It represents one of most important skills necessary for teaching and learning a second or a foreign language. It considered to be essential to improve skills such as reading comprehension, listening comprehension, speaking, writing, spelling and pronunciation. Vocabulary is classified into two major categories; expressive vocabulary, such as speaking and writing; and receptive vocabulary, such reading and listening. Vocabulary play a crucial rule in writing skill; as it considered to be as a magical tool that a good writer utilize it to power up any piece of writing, as it allows him to convey a particular meaning in more than one style. Learning vocabulary could be easy for some learners; however, others may found it difficult. In order to help learners who have difficulty in learning vocabularies, there are some techniques that they could utilize to make learning vocabulary easy and effective; such as repetition, practicing words in real life, link the vocabularies to the pictures; and finally, writing down new vocabularies more than one time could be helpful. Teaching vocabulary could be hard for both teachers and learner; however, there are some ways that could make this operation easy. Using previous techniques and the following tips could fix the problem; playing games through the class such as puzzles; illustrate the meaning of the word; give multiple meaning; create interesting story about it; use realia substances, present synonyms and antonyms; use the new word in context; use root of the word, suffix, prefix to guess the meaning. In brief, teaching vocabulary could be effective if both teacher and the learner are interested and tried to use different techniques and follow tips to success teaching/learning process.

Published in	Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 8, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.cls.20220804.11
Page(s)	55-60
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Teaching, Learning, Vocabulary, Techniques

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Safa Khalifa Al Talib

English Department, Faculty of Education, Nalut University, Nalut, Libya

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