An Investigation into Teaching and Learning Vocabulary Effectively

Vocabulary building plays a vital role both in speaking and writing effectively. The English language is said to have more than six lakhs of words. It may not possible to learn all these words. We select words depending on their frequency of occurrence, usefulness and range of their applicability. There is no one single way to learn vocabulary. There are several ways to enrich our vocabulary such as Newspapers, Magazines, Movies, Television, and Movies etc. Apart from this one should have to acquire the absolute knowledge of Synonyms, Antonyms, Affixation, One word substitutes, Words often confused, Phrasal verbs, Idioms, Classification of words, Conversion and Analogy which help English language learners in improving vocabulary.