Microsoft Word Interactive Approaches for Vocabulary Te

Key words: Interactive Approaches, Teacher-centered, Student-centered, Pair Work, Group 
Work. 
Introduction 
Pedagogies of teaching vocabularies are important, under the trend of globalization in the 
recent two decades. Within the increasing international situations caused by frequent 
international interaction for various types of purposes, the adult language learners’ 
vocabulary accumulations are confronting a condition of being tested. That is to say, the 
Taiwanese English learners’ vocabulary proficiency would be examined due to the 
unavoidable worldwide contract caused by the globalization. How our English 
communication can be carried out in an appropriate, understandable, and a smooth formal 

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way, vocabulary teaching would contribute to this point if someone is asking this question 
that should be discerned seriously since it is directly associated with the real world.
This study argues that under the trend of globalization, English teachers, especially who 
are teaching adult learners in universities, should fully apply the updated interactive 
approaches in order to teach their students English vocabularies. The reason is that their 
students are going to enter the real international societies, where comprehensible and fluently 
communication should be preceded through sufficient vocabularies.
If the current English teachers are not able to face the challenge of globalization trend, 
their students will encounter obscurity when they need to communicate with the right words. 
Also, the education of high school might be proved to be unsuccessful. This study argues that 
in order to accommodate with the trend of globalization in the petit earth, university teachers 
should figure out a dynamic way of teaching vocabularies for their students to really apply 
and make compensations for traditional vocabulary pedagogies.