Traditionally, vocabulary was neglected in language teaching programs and curriculums for the sake of grammar and other parts of language. Nowadays, however, researchers have realized that vocabulary is an important part of language learning and teaching and worthy of attention and research. A proliferation of studies done on vocabulary can be taken as a proof to it. Students are, however, repo...

This thesis has focused on the study on teaching vocabulary through constructing sense relations of words. An experimental teaching is carried out to prove the feasibility and effectiveness of a new way of vocabulary teaching-the integrated approach. The higher scores of the experimental class on the immediate tests and the smaller loss of retention on the delayed test appear to indicate that t...

The primary purpose of the present study was to explore whether there was any significant relationship between attitude, self-efficacy, and job satisfaction of Iranian EFL teachers on the one hand, and their choice of teaching strategies. Strategies mostly used by participants of the study with low, mid, and high levels of self-efficacy comprised another purpose of the study. To this end, a que...

This review surveys research on second language vocabulary teaching and learning since1999. It first considers the distinction between incidental and intentional vocabulary learning.Although learners certainly acquire word knowledge incidentally while engaged in variouslanguage learning activities, more direct and systematic study of vocabulary is also required.There is a discussion of how word...

Vocabulary acquisition is one of the most challenging obstacles language learners must overcome. This is especially true for students wishing to study in overseas universities, where comprehension of academic texts is required. This dissertation evaluates the vocabulary teaching component of an intensive English teaching programme for students intending to enter universities in the U.S. It firs...

Vocabulary plays a pivotal role in the ESL classroom. Whereas a considerable amount of research has examined effective ESL vocabulary teaching and learning, missing are studies that provide examples of how to put various research findings into practice: that is, apply them to real texts including target vocabulary items. In order to close the gap between research and practice, I reviewed a broa...