Role of Using Lexical Relations in Developing Vocabulary and Fluency

Abstract

The present study was carried out to investigate Role of Using Lexical Relations in Developing Vocabulary and Fluency. The most important hypotheses are: The teaching of lexical relations promotes undergraduates’ vocabulary and enhances their fluency, also undergraduates’ syllabuses do not include sufficiently lexical relation items. The study adopted a mixed-method approach: the descriptive analytical and experimental method. This situation has the effect of allowing the instruments used in the research to go together in a complementary manner. For this reason, an experiment, questionnaires, and class observations were used for data collection. The proposed experiment will be conducted at Sudan University of Science and Technology, College of Languages. Two groups will be adopted, the experimental and control group, on basis of a pre-test and a post-test. The tests will be set in such a way as to account for a greater part for lexical relations, namely synonyms. The (SPSS) program version 19 was used for data analysis. The key findings are summarized and a concise set of recommendations such as : Teachers should understand and assess the role of lexical relations introduce them to their students after careful consideration also Tutors should utilize lexical relations to reduce anxiety amongst their students which might ensue as result of lack of understanding and inability to cope with the text in question and the classroom as a whole and, Teachers should encourage students to make their own glosses in order to inculcate and entrench the concept of lexical relations.