Page 13 - Vocabulary Creatively

3. Teaching Vocabulary
Experienced teachers of English as a second

language know very well how important vocabulary is.

They know students must learn thousands that
speakers and writers of English use. Fortunately, the

need for vocabulary is one point on which teachers and
students agree (Allen, 1983).

a. Vocabulary lesson for the First Stage
In this case we have noted the following points:

1. When we think about language learning in

the classroom, it is useful to think also of
ways in which people learn, vocabulary

outside of school.
2. Vocabulary is best learned when someone

feels that a certain word is needed.
3. Vocabulary for the first stage of ESL usually

names certain things and persons in the

classroom.
4. Although such vocabulary is essential,

foreign words for family things may not seem

really necessary to students, especially when
English is not used outside their ESL class,

because the words they already know their