The aim of the research is to get an overall view about the state of vocabulary teaching in Hungarian primary and secondary schools. It also proposes to examine what vocabulary presentation techniques are the most widely used and what the reason can be for their popularity. Another interesting question this research aims to investigate is what the differences are between enriching primary and secondary school children’s vocabulary. A further question to examine is whether there are any techniques that are appropriate for one particular age group but do not work with the other and which techniques are satisfying for all of them.