L11/ Testing Vocabulary

Testing Vocabulary
Angela (1990:36) clarifies that “English teachers can apply
generative process to their students in producing language." This means that a word is used generative if it is used in speaking activities. in other words, English teachers can encourage generatively use by: 1) retelling of the written input from a different focus; 2) distributing the information that based on the target of vocabulary given, and 3) requiring students to reconstruct what is in a text rather than repeat it.
From these points, it is obvious that English teachers should be able to
teach the English vocabulary as many as possible in order to the students can actualize some or all of these points with the target vocabulary. Additionally, these points enable the English teachers to cover the language skills and the language components, such as speaking, writing, grammar, pronunciation and spelling.
B. Vocabulary Teaching Techniques in General
If the teaching of vocabulary is related to reading comprehension, then
there are three views about the relationship between vocabulary development and reading comprehension. The intended views are:
"The first view suggests that direct instruction make little differences in
terms of vocabulary development, whereas the second view suggests that direct instruction in specific words is extremely beneficial. The third view suggest that vocabulary development will be enhanced if students learn to relate to newconcepts to their existing concepts and background knowledge." (Nagy and Anderson, 1985 in Robert et al (1995)
From these views, it is obvious that teaching vocabulary proposed by the
English teachers should take into consideration the students vocabulary
development during teaching-learning activity.