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Techniques in Teaching Vocabulary Due to the complexity of teaching vocabulary teachers need to think carefully about how they can teach vocabulary to their students There are a lot of consideration to decide the best practice to be applied in the vocabulary class Among many considerations techniques in teaching vocabulary might be the main concern for many teachers Not only for teachers there are some scholars that emphasize the importance of teaching techniques for vocabulary learning Moreover they propose some techniques in teaching vocabulary According to Thornbury 2002 p 18 there are three techniques to learn a new vocabulary First is labelling which refers to mapping words on to concept Second is categorizing which means classifying the word into certain group And third is network building Network building means link all the labels and packages and lays the groundwork for a process that continues for as long as we are exposed to new words and new meaning for old words Other scholar that proposed the techniques in teaching vocabulary is Brewster Ellis and Girard 1992 in Alqahtani 2015 They suggest some techniques in teaching vocabulary such as using objects drawing using illustrations and pictures contrasting enumeration miming expressing and gestures guessing from context eliciting and the last is translation
