Abstract:
The present paper attempts to investigate teaching vocabulary items at the presentation stage, and the most preferred techniques of teaching vocabulary. Instruments used to collect data for this paper were a test and a questionnaire. Forty students from secondary schools in the first year were chosen as population as a sample for the study. Fifty teachers of English from different secondary schools were chosen to answer the questionnaire. According to the analysis of the collected data, the first favorite technique which is the most preferred by the teachers in teaching new vocabulary items is the technique of using words relation which received 98% and the percentage of using “always” is 78%. It is also found that the techniques of words relation, giving examples, using words in contexts and acting were the most preferred techniques of teaching
