I’ve always found the notion of “teaching vocabulary” at secondary level a bit sticky, and I’m not alone. Ask any English teacher about teaching vocabulary and you will probably be met initially with a strained facial expression, followed by a good deal of hesitancy, and rounded off with a thoroughly inconclusive response.
Although, being English teachers, we will undoubtedly dazzle and distract you with hundreds of sparkly ideas, suitably masking our uncertainty about what vocabulary we should teach and indeed how we should teach it.
So, if I was being a little more sensational, I’d have to say that “vocabulary teaching” is an issue fraught with endless difficulty and complication. Why is that?
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