The Teaching of Vocabulary Using the Communicative Spiraling Model to Third Year Students at High Schools in Benghazi Area

Abstract

This study tries in the first place to show the importance of vocabulary in teaching and learning a language, and to integrate vocabulary with the four language skills using the Communicative Spiraling Modal as a way of teaching vocabulary items in schools and colleges.The aims of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of the Communicative Spiraling Model for teaching vocabulary as formulated by Abunowara (2005), as it tries to teach vocabulary items using the four language skills, and prescribes exposure to the same vocabulary items repeatedly and in different contexts.