Investigating Teaching/Learning Vocabulary Techniques and Strategies

Omer Elsheikh Hago Emahdi and AbuObieda Gadalla Abd Al-Rahim
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Omer Elsheikh Hago Emahdi: Associate Professor Open University of the Sudan, Khartoum
AbuObieda Gadalla Abd Al-Rahim: EL-Emdad Institute for Learning English Language, Jeddah - KSA

Research Journal of Education, 2016, vol. 2, issue 11, 177-201

Abstract: This study investigates teaching/learning vocabulary. Mainly, studying the techniques used by EFL teachers in teaching vocabulary and also learners’ strategies to learn vocabulary. The particular research parameter that will be used in this study is the questionnaire for gathering data; the researchers are going to describe the phenomena under investigation. Students’ questionnaire was supposed to examine the strategies that are adopted by learners for learning vocabulary in English. In addition to that there was teachers’ questionnaire that is supposed to examine the techniques, which are used by teachers in teaching new vocabulary. The study reveals how secondary school learners use a variety of vocabulary learning strategies. Students as teachers preferred many of these strategies and techniques that help a lot in pushing the process of learning and teaching vocabulary forward. Overall students and teachers know high frequency vocabulary and how to use it.

Keywords: Teaching vocabulary; Learning vocabulary; Teaching strategies; Learning strategies/styles; Techniques. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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