Reflection: teaching vocabulary to advanced students

First of all, I would like to say that teaching is one of the most demanding activities

but at the same time it is one of the most gorgeous activities. This writing is a reflection

about the text, teaching vocabulary to advance learners. Teaching is not too easy, thus

there are many approaches about how learners learn, about the way learners learn etc.

According to text teaching vocabulary should be part of the syllabus. I agree with

this idea which was proposed by Lewis, because it is one of the ways that learners

increase their vocabulary because the text said that “advance learners are well in

grammar, they don’t dominate a range of vocabulary”, and this is true because in the

majority of school the vocabulary is taught under others topic. The teachers do not put

emphasis in vocabulary because they think that this does not work and in some way they

are right, because I believe that learning words in isolation does not help us very well. On

the other hand I think that is very important to teach vocabulary to advance learners,

because if you are and advance students is supposed that you are able to communicate

effectible in any situation, so if nobody teach you vocabulary or tell you at least how to

learn it, you will fail.

The lexical approach writing by Lewis point out that vocabulary is the most

important part of learning a new language, but there are other important aspects,

vocabulary is not the only one. It is important to know about these approach because is a

good guide to follow. Before this text I have not read an article like this and that is why it

call my attention, now I realized how important is to teach vocabulary but not just to

advance learners it could be a good idea to teach vocabulary from the beginning of the

process of learning because the student will be more aware about his/her own style of

learning, however, the text said that the teachers have to teach vocabulary in groups of

words I mean collocation, chunks of words, idioms.

This text teaching vocabulary to advanced student points to one of the goals we

have to achieve as language learners. The goal is to develop strategies for learning

vocabulary and expressions of the various areas of knowledge

Finally, I agree with what Lewis proposed. I think that the only way to achieve or

expand our vocabulary is studying it I believe it’s a good option to take into consideration

that learning vocabulary in the manner proposed by Lewis can be very productive.