The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Webb, Stuart

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of vocabulary; and key issues in teaching, researching, and measuring vocabulary, this Handbook:

. brings together a wide range of approaches to learning words to provide clarity on how best vocabulary might be taught and learned;

. provides a comprehensive discussion of the key issues and challenges in vocabulary studies, with research taken from the past 40 years;

. includes chapters on both formulaic language as well as single-word items;

. features original contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research.

The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies is an essential text for those interested in teaching, learning, and researching vocabulary.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 618
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000012385
• Artikelnr.: 68422281

Autorenporträt

Stuart Webb is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. His research interests include vocabulary studies, extensive reading and listening, and language learning through watching television.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Part I UNDERSTANDING VOCABULARY
2 The different aspects of vocabulary knowledge
3 Classifying and identifying formulaic language
4 An overview of conceptual models and thories of lexical representation in
the mental lexicon
5 The relationship between vocabulary knowledge and language proficiency
6 Frequency as a guide for vocabulary usefulness: High-, mid- and
low-frequency words
7 Academic vocabulary
8 Technical vocabulary
9 Factors affecting the learning of single word items
10 Factors affecting the learning of multiword items
11 Learning single words vs. multiword items
12 Processing single- and multi-word items
13 L1 and L2 vocabulary size and growth
14 How does vocabulary fit into theories of second language learning?
Part ¿ APPROACHES TO TEACHING AND LEARNING VOCABULARY
15 Incidental vocabulary learning
16 Intentional L2 vocabulary learning
17 Approaches to learning vocabulary inside the classroom
18 Strategies for learning vocabulary
19 Corpus-based wordlists in second language vocabulary research, learning,
and teaching
20 Learning words with flashcards and wordcards
21 Resources for learning single-word items
22 Resources for learning multi-word items
23 Evaluating exercises for learning vocabulary
Part III MEASURING KNOWLEDGE OF VOCABULARY
24 Measuring depth of vocabulary knowledge
25 Measuring knowledge of multiword items
26 Measuring vocabulary learning progress
27 Measuring the ability to learn words
28 Sensitive measures of vocabulary knowledge and processing: Expanding
Nation's framework
29 Measuring lexical richness
Part IV KEY ISSUES IN TEACHING, RESEARCHING, AND MEASURING VOCABULARY
30 Key issues in teaching single word items
31 Key issues in teaching multiword items
32 Single, but not unrelated: Key issues in teaching single word items
33 Key issues in researching multiword items
34 Key issues in measuring vocabulary knowledge
35 Resources for researching vocabulary
Index