THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AUTHENTIC MATERIALS IN DEVELOPING STUDENTS’ LEXICAL COMPETENCE

Abstract

As its known that the importance of English as international language is growing gradually. This can be seen in the fact that the number of English language learners is increasing day by day. English language learners pay more attention to leaning academic words while learning the language. On the one hand, it is true, but we must also pay attention to the words used mostly oral speech, just, authentic words. Using authentic materials should be qualified in terms of objectives, learners’ needs and nature of the meaningful communication. Also, the use of authentic materials in order to developing students’ lexical competence, help students to bridge the gap between classroom knowledge and their capacity to participate in real-world events. In this article, importance of authentic materials to develop students’ lexical competence is clarified.