Vocabulary

David Wilkins claimed that: “without grammar little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed.” Individuals need to use words to convey what they want for others. We can understand a conversation with broken grammar and pronunciation but it’s impossible to have a conversation without the use of vocabulary. It is true that vocabulary was one of the skills that was hindered for a long period. Not long ago researchers shed the light on its usage and importance for language learning. Moreover, vocabulary is one of the most important skills a language learner needs to learn and assist her to use the language better and more authentically.

     In order to understand better the task involved in learning the vocabulary we need to look  at two aspects of meaning. The first concerns the link between meaning and the world to which words refer. The second involves the sense relations that exist among words.

We have to encourage students to learn as much as they can new vocabularies
through reading, practicing and repeating the words in context. We should give
students explicit instructions which they can follow while acquiring new vocabularies.
Reading books is one from the most important ways that can help students widen
their repertoire of new and different vocabularies.