Vocabulary Teaching through a Language Textbook

Vocabulary pedagogy, especially recycling in textbooks seems to have been overlooked compared to grammar teaching in high school.To improve the quantity and quality of vocabulary, it may be very important to know the students' vocabulary size and how the both teachers and students learned vocabulary before they entered universities.The aim of this essay is to analyze which vocabulary terms are highlighted in a high school English textbook, and how the target vocabulary terms are presented.The textbook analysis in this essay found that the particular textbook highlights appropriate words in terms of frequency.However, most of these are single words and word association and collocations are often ignored.In addition, the number of target words in each chapter needs to be improved by considering repetitions of partly known words.Moreover, the target words are always presented in the same form or even in the same sentences that does not enhance recycling.Finally, the interval between repetitions is limited.Thus, teachers should emphasize the importance of repeated reviewing for vocabulary learning to retain what students have learned both in and outside class.