Vocabulary Teaching in English as a Foreign Language in Turkey*
Abstract
Vocabulary has a crucial role in learning a language and using that language effectively.
The purpose of enhancing vocabulary knowledge has attracted second or foreign language
researchers’ interest from past to present and resulted in the developments of various
vocabulary teaching methods, techniques and practices. This study aims to examine the
studies conducted on vocabulary teaching in English as a foreign language and to identify
the current tendency of English vocabulary teaching studies carried out in Turkey. The
article studies published by Turkish researchers between 2013-2018 and directly related to
the subject of this study have been selected with purposeful sampling and examined
through meta-synthesis method. Every single study included in this meta-synthesis study
has been reviewed through a content analysis method in terms of their purposes, research
methodologies, samples, data collection tools, teaching practices and findings. Data
gathered in this study have been presented in tables and figures with remarks on frequency.
It has been found that the technologically supported vocabulary teaching studies has
increased and enriched, vocabulary teaching in context is still of great importance,
educational games protects its effectiveness on young learners for vocabulary teaching
purposes and vocabulary learning strategies need to be taken into consideration in
vocabulary studies.
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