VOCABULARY. THE IMPORTANCE OF VOCABULARY. TEACHING AND LEARNING OF VOCABULARY .

Аннотация

Over the last decades or so  foreign language  learning and teaching have been swayed by main and subsidiary skills. Main skills are vocabulary, speaking, reading and listening. Rest of the skills are considered as a subsidiary skills. In learning any language all skills are essential ones. But if you do not know meaning of any words it is not likely to achieve any progress not only in learning a language, but in developing other skills too. The skill based approach views vocabulary as one of the main skills. It also holds that vocabulary involves many micro skills such as : pronunciation, spelling, word structure and others. In contrast the whole language approach views vocabulary as word meaning within the context meaning which more than the sum of individual words.