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1. Unit 2: Teaching of VOCABULARY
Dr. Shaikh Tahemina Naaz

2. Vocabulary is of two kinds:
1. Passive or Receptive Vocabulary
2. Active or Productive Vocabulary

3. Definition of Words
"A free form which is not a phrase is a
word."
" The most important criterion of a word is t
hat it is the smallest unit that can in ordinary
usage function alone as a sentence."
" Words are pegs to hang ideas on."
—Bloomfield
—Strang
—H. W. Beecher

4. Thus to know a word means:
1. Ability to recognise it in its spoken form.
2. Ability to recognise it in its written form.
3. Ability to recall it whenever needed.
4. Ability to use it in the appropriate grammatical
form.
5. Ability to pronounce it while speaking.
6. Ability to spell it correctly while writing.

5. A word can convey more than one meaning
which are as follows :
1. Lexical.
2. Syntatical
3. Morphological.
4. Intonational
5. Cultural

6. Kinds of Words
Function words or structural words
1 2 Substitute words
Grammatically distributed words
3 Content words
4
According to Fries, English words can be classified as:

7. Difficulties in Learning Words in English
Homonymy
Homophone
Homograph
Polysemy
Frozen idiomatic expre
ssions
Use of a slang or colloq
uial expression inappro
priately

8. Principles for the selection of vocabulary items
1. Principle of simplicity
2. Principle of usefulness
3. Principle of teachability
4. Principle of availability
5. Principle of coverage
6. Principle of universality
7. Principle of frequency of occurence
8.Principle of structural value

9. Teaching of active vocabulary :
Steps:
Presentation
Practice

10. Teaching of Passive Vocabulary
Teaching of Passive vocabulary begins a
t the senior level. For the teaching of pa
ssive vocabulary, only the presentation
step should be followed. Supplementar
y readers should be encouraged for the
purpose.

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