1. 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.