THE VOCABULARY TEACHING STRATEGIES

There are two major techniques of vocabulary teaching: explicit and implicit vocabulary instruction. Following these techniques, the teacher can develop their own strategies of teaching vocabulary. However, some major strategies should be considered in every classroom depending on student'level and interest. Following are the major strategies according to each technique of vocabulary teaching.

Explicit vocabulary instruction can be done following some strategies. First, pre-teaching vocabulary is useful to teach student major words before reading a text. Teachers can pre- select some difficult word from the text. Then they explain the word to the student or cluster the synonyms and anonyms into categories. Discussion on the words also helps students understand the words before starting reading. Second, teachers can use word maps,such as semantic mapping and definition maps to teach vocabulary explicitly. Morphological clustering helps students group words that are similar in meaning. they understand the representation among the words thought the visual representation of the words come cluster. This helps them guess the meaning of the words even before knowing the exact meaning of the words. It helps student categorize meanings of a word into group and subgroups. Therefore, students are able to understands the words in relation to other concepts. Moreover, students can visualize the relationships between the words. This activities their cognition and helps them learn and remember the words better.