My views on teaching and learning vocabulary

Teachers can use different vocabulary presentation techniques to develop students' interest in vocabulary learning, such as realia and visuals, word-building, matching, demonstrating, guessing from context. Apart from these skills, I think teachers can use songs or something related to students' daily lives to develop their interests too.
Students can be helped to develop an independent vocabulary learning habit by arousing their own interests in learning English as teachers have limited time and other constraints in textbook use to teach English to students. Drilling and recycling the vocabulary may be a good way for them. My school's strategy is always to recycle the vocabulary items to the students so that they can use their words on their own ultimately.
Some students still have difficulty in learning English but the use of mother tongue can fasten the translation and explanation time of teaching vocabulary. I switch to the mother tongue sometimes to let them catch attention first. However, I recently found out that other ways of teaching can also be used for teaching vocabulary. Pictogram is one of the ways because colourful pictures can catch their eyeballs. For senior form students, I believe using English to explain the meaning of vocabulary is more suitable as they require higher level of thinking.