Vocabulary Teaching in ESL Classroom

Vocabulary teaching for ESL learners demands from the teachers’ part creativity, planning, and a deep understanding of how learners acquire new words. Vocabulary plays an essential role in facilitating their productive language performance. This article discusses the need for accelerating their word power to communicate successfully within and outside their world. Teachers need to adopt new techniques to expand their learners’ vocabulary by taking into account several aspects of lexis while teaching vocabulary. There is a definite need for teaching strategies to help the second language learners to develop their vocabulary through listening, speaking, reading and writing. Innovative use of techniques in classrooms and exposure to English language, words and phrases will enable learners to gain vocabulary acquisition for communication in real life situations. This paper provides a few techniques 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 and interest of the learners to teach vocabulary as their learners need.