How Vocabulary Is Learned (e-book for Kindle)
How Vocabulary Is Learned (e-book for Kindle)
Stuart Webb and Paul Nation
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How Vocabulary Is Learned presents the major issues that relate to the teaching and learning of vocabulary. Written by leading voices in the field of second language acquisition, the book evaluates a wide range of practical activities designed to help boost students' vocabulary learning.
- ISBN: 978-0-19-440352-8
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Key features
- How many words should students learn at a time, and how often.
- How much classroom time should be spent teaching vocabulary.
- The best way to group vocabulary for learning.
- Why it is useful to provide students with the L1 translations of unknown words.
- Why some students make greater progress than others.
Reviews
- "Teachers will find answers to many of their perennial questions about vocabulary learning-as well as some they had not yet thought to ask! There is research evidence to support established practices, but also new evidence that challenges old ideas."
- Patsy Lightbown (co-author of How Languages are Learned, with Nina Spada) - "a tremendous resource... the authors have worked at the cutting edge of research into teaching and learning
vocabulary. This factor is apparent
throughout the book. They revisit questions previously asked but which till now were never properly answered. Perhaps most importantly, they pose and address new ones for us all to consider."
- El Gazette
Contents
- Which words should be learned?
- Learning burden
- Vocabulary size and growth
- Conditions contributing to vocabulary learning
- Analysing vocabulary learning activities
- Learning vocabulary in different contexts
- Developing autonomous learners of vocabulary
- Developing an effective vocabulary learning programme
- Resources for vocabulary learning
- Key questions about vocabulary learning
