Vocabulary Teaching in ESL Classroom

Vocabulary teaching for ESL learners demands from the teachers’ partcreativity, planning, and a deep understanding of how learners acquire new words.Vocabulary plays an essential role in facilitating their productive languageperformance. This article discusses the need for accelerating their word power tocommunicate successfully within and outside their world. Teachers need to adopt newtechniques to expand their learners’ vocabulary by taking into account several aspectsof lexis while teaching vocabulary. There is a definite need for teaching strategies tohelp the second language learners to develop their vocabulary through listening,speaking, reading and writing. Innovative use of techniques in classrooms and exposureto English language, words and phrases will enable learners to gain vocabularyacquisition for communication in real life situations. This paper provides a fewtechniques that can be incorporated in the teaching of vocabulary in ESL classroom.The teachers can further explore new tips and techniques according to the level andinterest of the learners to teach vocabulary as their learners need.