Vocabulary Instruction: Models Based on Classroom Experiments
Bhavani. S
Assistant Professor, Christ University, Bengaluru
Keywords: Creative Pedagogy, Vocabulary Instruction, Lexical items
Abstract
This paper focuses on teacher innovation in teaching vocabulary. It discusses experiments carried out in the classroom to facilitate vocabulary instruction at the undergraduate level. Vocabulary instruction becomes a major challenge for all language teachers as it is a niche within the language teaching domain. Most often the gap exists when vocabulary instruction needs to be executed in a class where a specific course material or book is not provided. This paper identifies some of the suitable methods that can be used in the classroom for vocabulary instruction. The teacher is required to create contexts to help the learners organise lexical items into suitable contexts. Since vocabulary instruction in isolation may not help in sustaining lexical items for long term, the need to customise instructions for various learner groups are identified and presented here.
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