Vocabulary activities as a main part of FLTL

Vocabulary is one of the important aspects of language to teach. There are many quotations from famous linguistics to support this idea. For example, "Without grammar very little can be conveyed; without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed." (Wilkins 1972:111) and "When students travel, they don't carry grammar books, they carry dictionaries." (Kristen in Lewis 1993) . Moreover, errors of vocabulary are potentially more misleading than those of grammar. Sometimes the context of the utterance would lead a listener to question their first interpretation, but a chance response such as "Yes, my father has an affair in that village'(confusing the Swedish “affair” meaning 'shop' with the English 'affair' which can mean 'extra-marital relationship') gives the listener the wrong impression.

Introduction............................................................................................................3
1.Teaching vocabulary as a main part of learning foreign languages
1.1The goals and principles of learning vocabulary…………………………..5
1.2. Methods of teaching vocabulary............................................6
2The main techniques of teaching vocabulary
2.1 Classification of vocabulary exercises ………10
2.2 Vocabulary activities as an effective way of teaching vocabulary.......................................14
3. Approbation………………………………………………………………24
Conclusion............................................................................................................35
References.............................................................................................................36