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For James Milton Roberts, his life falls into three distinct
phases: growing up on a tobacco farm in eastern North Carolina;
witnessing the horrors in Vietnam with the Marine Corps; and
battling the personal aftereffects of the war. In this memoir, My
Three Shadows, Roberts recaps his past in order to make sense of
his present and future. Roberts recalls growing up on a farm, where
he picked tobacco and tended the animals. Although it was a time of
hardship, he narrates stories of the carefree hours of fishing and
swimming in nearby swamps. But his life changed drastically when he
joined the Marine Corps and served in Vietnam. My Three Shadows
provides a firsthand look into some of the horrors he witnessed.
These horrors would haunt him when he returned to the United
States. This memoir tells of how post-traumatic stress disorder and
repressed memories of war affected every aspect of his life,
causing him to lose his family, businesses, and home. But Roberts
also shares a story of survival and redemption-how the love of one
woman makes him who he is today.
International scholars and researchers present cutting edge
contributions on the significance of vocabulary in current thinking
on first and second language acquisition in the school and at home.
By pursuing common themes across first and second language and
bilingual contexts, the editors offer a collection that tackles the
most important issues.
Written by experts in the field, this book explains the principles
of effective vocabulary instruction for the modern language
classroom. While many language classrooms rely on practices which
can be outdated, idiosyncratic or ill-advised, this book overviews
the research and background necessary to successfully integrate
vocabulary instruction into the curriculum in a systematic way.
Starting with the common gaps in vocabulary instruction, Milton and
Hopwood demonstrate how students' development of a large,
communicative lexicon, with an understanding of word structure and
collocations, is an essential component of language instruction.
The book addresses goal setting, curriculum design, word selection,
how words are learned, learning in and outside of the classroom and
more. It also addresses common myths about teaching vocabulary in
the United Kingdom and around the world. This comprehensive text
fills an important gap in the literature and is ideal for
undergraduate and postgraduate courses in world language/foreign
language methods and language methods courses.
Written by experts in the field, this book explains the principles
of effective vocabulary instruction for the modern language
classroom. While many language classrooms rely on practices which
can be outdated, idiosyncratic or ill-advised, this book overviews
the research and background necessary to successfully integrate
vocabulary instruction into the curriculum in a systematic way.
Starting with the common gaps in vocabulary instruction, Milton and
Hopwood demonstrate how students' development of a large,
communicative lexicon, with an understanding of word structure and
collocations, is an essential component of language instruction.
The book addresses goal setting, curriculum design, word selection,
how words are learned, learning in and outside of the classroom and
more. It also addresses common myths about teaching vocabulary in
the United Kingdom and around the world. This comprehensive text
fills an important gap in the literature and is ideal for
undergraduate and postgraduate courses in world language/foreign
language methods and language methods courses.
Measuring Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition provides an
examination of the background to testing vocabulary knowledge in a
second language and in particular considers the effect that word
frequency and lexical coverage have on learning and communication
in a foreign language. It examines the tools we have for assessing
the various facets of vocabulary knowledge such as aural and
written word recognition, the link with word meaning, and
vocabulary depth. These are illustrated and the scores they produce
are demonstrated to provide normative data. Vocabulary acquisition
from course books and in the classroom in examined, as is
vocabulary uptake from informal tasks. This book ties scores on
tests of vocabulary breadth to performance on standard foreign
language examinations and on hierarchies of communicative
performance such as the CEFR.
Over the last 20 years vocabulary research has grown from a
Cinderella subject in foreign language teaching and research to a
position of some importance. Vocabulary is now considered integral
to just about every aspect of language knowledge. With this
development have come standard and widely-used tests, such as
vocabulary size and lexical richness measures, and very commonly
accepted metaphors, such as the mental lexicon as a web of words.
Less widely known outside academic circles, however, is the
extensive work on learners' lexis and the utility, reliability and
validity of the tests we use to measure and investigate it.
Vocabulary is a lively and vital area of research and innovation.
This volume brings together contributions from
internationally-renowned researchers in this field to explain much
of the background to study in this area. It introduces to a wider
audience the concerns, the new approaches and the most recent
developments in the field of vocabulary research and testing.
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