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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can be outdated, idiosyncratic or ill-advised, this book overviews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.
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can be outdated, idiosyncratic or ill-advised, this book overviews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.
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.
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