IntroductionVocabularyisoneoftheindispensablecomponentsofthelanguagesystem,andresearchershavefoundthatthereexistsacloserelationshipbetweenvocabularyandothercomponentsinalanguagesystem.However,vocabularyisthoughttobethemostdifficultcomponentoflanguageknowledgeforalearnertograsp.Gorman(1979)pointedoutthattherewasevidenceshowingthatasstudentsbecomemoreproficientinasecondlanguage,problemscausedspecificallybysyntacticalvariationbecomelesssignificant(citedinCrowandQuigley,1985:499).Thatistosay,vocabularybecomesamajorprobleminthe
