Principles of Teaching Foreign Language Vocabulary to University Students

Abstract

One of the most challenging problems university students encounter when learning foreign languages is acquiring lexical units and enhancing vocabulary skills. The article provides the study of the methods and principles of teaching foreign language vocabulary to university students as well as their advantages and drawbacks. The general levels of educational students’ achievement in learning English are determined on the basis of the pilot research carried out at Donetsk National University in Vinnytsia and Vinnytsia National Agrarian University. Although the results of the pilot research show students’ weaknesses in the process of learning lexical units, they prove the positive impact of the presented methods and principles of teaching English at university.