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TESLR eporter37,2(2004), pp. 1-13 Myths about Teaching andLearningSecondLanguageVocabulary:What RecentResearch SaysKeith S. FolseUniversityofCentralFlorida,USAI ntroduction1 Learninga languageentailslearningnumerousaspectsab outthatlanguage,includingitspronunciatio n,writingsystem,syntax,pragmatics,rhetor icalmodesforreadingandcomposition,cultur e,andspelling, (L2)researchreflectsthisimportance,assee nin ( ,naturalcontextordirectinstruction)(Lauf er&Shmueli,1997;Zimmerman,1997), learners 'vocabularylearningstrategies(Gu,1994;Le ssard-Clouston,1994;Sanaoui,1995;Nassaji ,2003),thedevelopmentofL2learners'vocabu laries(Laufer,1998;Schmitt,1998;Nesselha uf,2003),the useofLlor L2 forinitialwordpresentation(Prince,1995;G race,1998),theeffectofdifferentpracticea ctivitiesonlearning(Joe,1995,1998;Folse, 1999),thenumberofwordsL2learnersneedtokn ow(Hazenberg&Hulstijn,1996),andwhichword sstudentsneedtoknow(Coxhead,2000;Liu,200 3).Thefindingsofthesestudiescastdoubtonc ommonmythsaboutL2vocabularyteachingandle arning(Folse,2004b).
2 TESLReporter Myth 1 Vocabulary is Not as Important in Learning a Foreign Language as Grammar or Other Areas Comprehensible input helps learners figure out how a language works.
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