Vocabulary in Language TeachingThis text offers a comprehensive introduction to vocabulary for language teachers who would like to know more about the way vocabulary works. It provides the background knowledge necessary for practitioners to make informed choices about vocabulary teaching and testing. The overall theme is making research and theory accessible, and then drawing on it to suggest effective classroom applications. Chapters 1 and 2 provide linguistic and historical background. Chapters 3-7 describe the various kinds of knowledge a person can have about a word, how vocabulary behaves in context, and how it is acquired. Chapters 8 and 9 focus on issues in teaching and testing vocabulary. The chapters include teaching applications, exercises, and suggestions for further reading. The appendices include a word list of academic vocabulary and a vocabulary test. |
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bank bank bank Bank of English Basic English cabulary cause cause cause chapter classroom COBUILD collocation concordancers content words context core meaning corpora dictionary discourse English English language example explicit exposure find first frequent words grammatical guage guess hyponyms ical idioms important incidental learning indicates inflections L2 learners language learning language teaching Laufer lexemes lexical aspects lexical chunks lexical knowledge lexical phrases lexicon lexis linguistic McCarthy meaning senses Meara MWUs nadsat Nation native speakers noun number of words orthographic patterning phonological phrasal verbs prototype theory provide provide provide reading register marking Schmitt second language Second Language Acquisition semantic sorry speech spelling spoken suggests target word teachers tion TOEFL types unknown word vocabulary acquisition vocabulary knowledge vocabulary learning strategies vocabulary tests Word associations word class word families word knowledge word lists word’s meaning written