... However, there seems to be an increasing conviction that the first language (L1) has a necessary and facilitating role in the second and foreign language (L2) classroom Many English language professionals ... The study of Ringbom in 1987 clearly indicates that L1 clearly has a very important role to play in the deliberator learning vocabulary (Nation, 2001) Auerbach (1993) claims that the use of the ... reason the researcher focused on vocabulary acquisition is that the acquisition of vocabulary has a central role in learning a second language (Sökmen, 1997), and is of great significance to language...