II. LITERATURE REVIEW
Although vocabulary teaching and learning were ignored, to a great extent, in certain methods of language teaching
for some decades, there is now a widespread agreement upon the need for language learners to improve their knowledge
of vocabulary (Coady and Huckin, 1997). Channell (1998) stated that vocabulary teaching should be viewed as a
separate area in teaching a foreign language because vocabulary is vital for improving language proficiency. Also
Carter (1992, pp. 152-153) found “the need for much more vocabulary to be taught and learned as a separate activity
rather than, say, part of a grammar or reading lesson”.
Laufer (1997) also argues that if fluency is understood as the “ability to convey a message with ease and
comprehensibility”, then vocabulary adequacy and accuracy matter more than grammatical correctness. According to