Teaching Business English to Students: Prioritizing Vocabulary
Teaching Business English to Students: Prioritizing Vocabulary

Author(s): Alla Mămăligă
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Library and Information Science
Published by: Biblioteca Ştiinţifică a Universităţii de Stat Alecu Russo
Keywords: glossary; lexis; task-based assignments; teaching / learning strategies; vocabulary teaching
Summary/Abstract: The efficient acquisition of a specialized vocabulary in a foreign language is notonly the concern of the students, but also a major concern of the teacher. Thisarticle focuses on the crucial role of the teacher in choosing appropriatestrategies and materials to help improve students’ learning of new terms, bothduring class activities and individual work, as well as on the role of vocabularyin learning English. If English language teaching traditionally focuses on thedetailed study of grammatical rules, to the detriment of vocabulary, along withthe increasing use of communication-based methods, the study of vocabularyshould regain its well-deserved place. Additionally, the article refers to theimportance vocabulary knowledge has in learning a foreign language, whatstudying vocabulary means, the problems that teachers might face when teachingvocabulary to students, as well as techniques that may make teaching vocabularymore attractive to students.

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