Some strategies used in teaching English vocabulary in the elf classrooms- a case study conducted at the faculty of education, University of Misurata, Libya

الملخص EN

This study is written to investigate the vocabulary teaching strategies adopted by four English teachers in English Department-Faculty of Education University of Misurata.

This study tries to answer two basic questions: What are the vocabulary teaching strategies used in English Department? Do these strategies subsume the various methods of teaching vocabulary in modern literature? Analysis and discussions are based on the data collected from interview, observation, and post-observation interview.

The participating teachers are four EFL teachers with different experiences.

The data analysis is based on the constant comparison method to establish semantic themes or categories.

The findings show that the strategies used by the participating teachers to teach vocabulary items are miming, book/sheet images, drawing, definition and the translation method.

The participants report that they do not teach their students strategies to learn vocabulary outside of class, contrary to the norms posited in the literature for teaching vocabulary.