vocabulary profiling

Knowing the most commonly used words helps in teaching because as a teacher knows more words, s/he can easily communicate with students (at their English levels,as they can understand him/her) or foreigners and s/he can easily understands what others say to him/her. So broader vocabulary helps you to both communicate easily and understand others. Students can learn these common words naturally from texts but teachers should also teach these words in order to make students use them properly and grammatically in the context. Also, they will learn what these words mean by the way. Furthermore, we should focus on vocabulary by doing activities because only texts are nor enough to teach words. By activities, students work directly on the meaning and learn them through revising. Additionally, both dictionaries and word lists are useful in learning vocabulary. When the student has difficulty in guessing the meaning from the context, they can look for it from these tools to make it clear.