Methodological strategies used by teachers to increase and improve vocabulary in the first year of baccalaureate

Abstract

The present research is focused in the strategies that the teacher uses to teach english language and to make students increase and improve their vocabulary. english language nowadays is a very used language around the world, our country considers it a second language, and it is taught in our schools. it is essential to have well prepared teachers, they have to know an extended set of strategies, techniques, methods, dynamic activities to develop the skills that english language involves, such as the well-known four skills, listening, speaking, reading, and writing, but there are another ones that play an important role in the developing of the language. we have grammar and vocabulary. vocabulary is our target skill. we all know that the person in charge to teach in a school must be a well-prepared teacher, with a set of methodological strategies, and they have to be prepared to face every eventual situation in the classroom, but first, the teacher has to be conscious that he is teaching a new language, it means that he is the responsible to make students start to speak using another language, different from their mother tongue. considering vocabulary a very important skill in the learning of a new language, we think it is essential that the teacher has the preparation to teach students. we will investigate what types of vocabulary exist, what of the current used strategies by teachers are the more effective to increase and improve the vocabulary in the learners of the second language.