GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

The paper critically analysis the ways of improving vocabulary. Vocabulary is a core component of language proficiency and it provides much of the basis on how to speak, listen, read, and write. This paper reviewed that learning vocabulary encompasses four stages: discrimination, understanding the meaning, remembering, and consolidation and extension of the meanings. It also provides the types of vocabulary such as listening, speaking vocabularies, etc., ways of improving vocabulary includes: developing a reading habit, making friends with the dictionary and thesaurus, practice using new words in conversation games, etc. and the difficulties in learning vocabulary. In conclusion, vocabulary knowledge is an integral part of the language proficiency as well as central to communicative competence. One of the recommendations was that learners, writers as well as readers should use more of newly discovered words in their day to day conversation, which in turn will help enhance their vocabulary skills.

KEYWORDS: Vocabulary, Types, Vocabulary Learning/Difficulties, and Vocabulary Improvement