Perceptions of Vocabulary Teaching Methods among EFL Teachers

Abstract

This paper investigates the perceptions of teachers of English as a foreign language towards vocabulary teaching. The participants are three oral expression teachers and 32 teachers at the English Language and Literature Department at Mohamed Lamine Dabaghine University. The research follows a quantitative and a qualitative design that uses a questionnaire and an observation respectively. The questionnaire collected the perceptions of the 32 participants towards their vocabulary teaching methods. The observation collected concrete classroom vocabulary teaching data that were compared to the observed teachers’ questionnaire responses. Analysis of the questionnaire data revealed different perceptions of vocabulary teaching methods. Moreover, analysis of the observation data along with the observed teachers’ responses to the questionnaire confirmed explicit teaching of vocabulary using the presentation-practice-production stages.