THE ROLE OF TEACHING VOCABULARY TO IMPROVE THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNERS’ WRITTEN PRODUCTION CASE STUDY: SECOND-YEAR LMD STUDENTS OF ENGLISH AT CHADLI BENDJEDID EL-TARF UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The present investigation aims to study the interconnection between vocabulary teaching and its influence on the students’ written production. The study supports the notion of the interconnection between the appropriate use of vocabulary and the advanced written production in which the correct selection of words affects students’ level of writing. In order to check the validity of the hypothesis that stipulate if second-year students of English at Chadli BENDJEDID El-Tarf University are taught vocabulary, then their written production will be improved. To confirm this hypothesis, a descriptive study has been conducted and questionnaires were used as data gathering instruments. The questionnaires were administered to both teachers and students at the department of English at Chadli BENDJEDID El-Tarf University. The results of this investigation have confirmed that students are in need to taught vocabulary in order to improve their writing competence because they face obstacles with appropriate use of vocabulary. As a result of this, writing in second or foreign language seems as a difficult task for second-year students to learn. This leads us to confirm that if teachers are aware of the advantages of the vocabulary teaching as stated in the hypothesis, students may overcome some of their difficulties while writing.