Vocabulary consists of the building blocks of a language (Nation, 2005). Words are among the first things that a very young child starts to conceive. Few language learners will disagree with the importance of vocabulary. Horwitz (1999), using her "Beliefs about Language Learning Inventory (BALLI)," found all groups of EFL students with respect to vocabulary learning agreed that the important part of learning a language was learning vocabulary (agreement ranging from 42 to 79% of the subjects). Here are some quotes from very widely recognized studies: One cannot speak, understand, read or...