My future career, as an ESOL lecturer at the University of Namibia, will be immensely
influenced by the skills, knowledge and awareness that I have gained through this research
assignment. I will have to reconsider the way I had taught English in the past, evaluate my past
teaching strategies and implement more effective new strategies that I have learned and observed
in various English for Academic Purposes classrooms. I will share my skills and knowledge with
my new colleagues and staff members. I am excited to go back and implement these new skills
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and knowledge in my classroom and observe the results. With the assistance of the Ministry of
Education, I intend to have workshops for primary school English teachers on vocabulary
teaching strategies. This research work on vocabulary learning and teaching has laid the
foundation for my future academic endeavors.