Among ordinary language learners, the acquisition of vocabulary has long been felt to be a crucial component of learning a foreign language. Second Language Vocabularly Acquisition has the goal of comparing the effectiveness of the direct learning of vocabulary (through memorization) and the indirect learning of vocabulary (through context); it encourages an appropriate balance between direct and indirect teaching of vocabulary in second language classrooms. The authors of these original articles present theoretical background, empirical research, and case studies focusing on a variety of modes of vocabulary acquisition. There is also an exploration of relevant pedagogical issues, including a description of practical strategies and techniques for teaching vocabulary.
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As the title suggests this book is aimed at those interested in the aquisition of vocabulary in a second language. Readership is probably more aimed at academics, researchers, advanced students, and teachers who have a more than a superficial knowledge of this area. The books has up to date chapters from some of leading L2 vocabulary researchers and very helpful commentary from the editors. It is likely that some chapters will be of more interest to individuals than others, as often is the case with edited volumes. Buy it !
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Vocabulary is central to language and of critical importance to the typical language learner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
institutionalised utterances, total content words, second language vocabulary acquisition, complex lexical units, nonsense letter strings, second language reading, discourse connectives, elicitation instruments, keyword method, deceptive transparency, graphemic unit, vocabulary instruction, unanalyzed wholes, insufficient vocabulary, orthographic properties, vocabulary learning, general service list, keyword technique, vocabulary gains, graded readers, successful guessing, incidental acquisition, lexical approach, bilingual lexicon, lexical competence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Pre Post, Newbury House, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Lawrence Erlbaum, American English, Reading Research Quarterly, Grammar Translation, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Research, Direct Method, Academic Press, Psychological Review, United States, University of Chicago Press, Applied Psycholinguistics, James Coady, John Benjamins, Language Teaching Publications, Schouten-Van Parreren, Prentice Hall, Reform Movement, Acid Shock New!
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Vocabulary is central to language and of critical importance to the typical language learner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
institutionalised utterances, total content words, second language vocabulary acquisition, complex lexical units, nonsense letter strings, second language reading, discourse connectives, elicitation instruments, keyword method, deceptive transparency, graphemic unit, vocabulary instruction, unanalyzed wholes, insufficient vocabulary, orthographic properties, vocabulary learning, general service list, keyword technique, vocabulary gains, graded readers, successful guessing, incidental acquisition, lexical approach, bilingual lexicon, lexical competence Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Pre Post, Newbury House, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Lawrence Erlbaum, American English, Reading Research Quarterly, Grammar Translation, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology, Journal of Research, Direct Method, Academic Press, Psychological Review, United States, University of Chicago Press, Applied Psycholinguistics, James Coady, John Benjamins, Language Teaching Publications, Schouten-Van Parreren, Prentice Hall, Reform Movement, Acid Shock New!
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- General Service List of English Words by Michael West on page 9, and page 238
- The Lexical Approach: The State of ELT and a Way Forward (Language Teaching Publications) by Michael Lewis on page 202, and page 269
- Techniques in Teaching Vocabulary (Teaching Techniques in English as a Second Language) by Virginia French Allen on page 280
- Sociolinguistics and Language Teaching (Cambridge Applied Linguistics) by Sandra Lee McKay in Front Matter
- Language Learning and Deafness (Cambridge Applied Linguistics) by Michael Strong in Front Matter
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