... understanding various aspects related to vocabulary teaching. Language experts such as Nation (1 97 4), Allen (1 98 3), Gains and Redman (1 98 6), Cross (1 99 1), Murcia (1 99 1), Ur (1 99 6) have described ... life of (Reading) - Ms Thao taught 7 new words: harrow ( pictures” technique), transplant ( mine” technique), buffalo ( pictures” technique), plough ( pictures” technique), peasant ( synonym” ... the students’ top preference teaching techniques are “pictures” (9 4.4 %), “mime” (9 0.6 %), “drawing” (9 0,6 %) and “realia” (8 7.2 %). Luckily, “picture” was exploited to meet students’ need in English...