Vocabulary in Language Teaching,9780521669382

Vocabulary in Language Teaching

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ISBN13: 9780521669382
ISBN10: 0521669383
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-03-13
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This 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.

Table of Contents

Series editor's preface xi
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction
1(9)
Size of the English vocabulary
2(1)
How many words do native speakers know?
3(1)
The complex nature of vocabulary
4(2)
Summary
6(1)
Exercises for expansion
7(2)
Further reading
9(1)
History of vocabulary in language learning
10(12)
Language teaching methodologies through the ages
10(5)
The Vocabulary Control Movement
15(2)
Research into vocabulary acquisition and organization
17(2)
Historical overview of vocabulary testing
19(1)
Summary
20(1)
Exercises for expansion
21(1)
Further reading
21(1)
Aspects of Knowing a word: Meaning and organization
22(23)
Word meaning
22(9)
Register
31(6)
Word associations
37(6)
Summary
43(1)
Exercises for expansion
43(1)
Further reading
44(1)
Aspects of knowing a word: Word form and grammatical Knowledge
45(23)
The written form of a word
45(8)
The spoken form of a word
53(5)
Grammatical knowledge
58(7)
Summary
65(1)
Exercises for expansion
66(1)
Further reading
67(1)
The use of corpora in vocabulary studies
68(28)
Corpora and their development
68(3)
Applications of corpora
71(10)
Corpus input into dictionaries
81(7)
Summary
88(1)
Exercises for expansion
89(6)
Further reading
95(1)
Vocabulary in discourse
96(20)
Multiword units in English
96(6)
Lexical patterning in discourse
102(3)
Cohesive and stylistic effects of vocabulary in discourse
105(8)
Summary
113(1)
Exercises for expansion
113(1)
Further reading
114(2)
Vocabulary acquisition
116(26)
The incremental nature of vocabulary acquisition
117(3)
Incidental and explicit learning of vocabulary
120(3)
Acquisition of word meaning and grammatical knowledge
123(4)
MWUs in vocabulary acquisition
127(2)
Role of memory in vocabulary acquisition
129(3)
Vocabulary learning strategies
132(6)
Summary
138(1)
Exercises for expansion
138(2)
Further reading
140(2)
Teaching and learning vocabulary
142(21)
How many and which words to teach
142(3)
Teaching vocabulary
145(5)
Vocabulary and reading
150(5)
Vocabulary and writing, listening, and speaking
155(2)
Summary
157(1)
Exercises for expansion
158(4)
Further reading
162(1)
Assessing vocabulary knowledge
163(18)
What do you want to test?
164(1)
What words do you want to test?
164(3)
What aspects of these words do you want to test?
167(5)
How will you elicit students' knowledge of these words?
172(2)
Examples of current vocabulary test development
174(4)
Summary
178(1)
Exercises for expansion
179(1)
Further reading
180(1)
Appendixes 181(20)
Appendix A Word associations for illuminate
181(1)
Appendix B The Academic Word List (AWL)
182(5)
Appendix C Frequency of selected words in CIC/BNC corpora
187(1)
Appendix D Concordance for made it plain
188(3)
Appendix E Missing words from the Chapter 8 reading passages
191(1)
Appendix F Vocabulary Levels Test: Version 1
192(9)
References 201(21)
Index 222

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