Vocabulary : description, acquisition and pedagogy / edited by Norbert Schmitt and Michael McCarthy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmitt, Norbert.

McCarthy, Michael, 1947-

Series:

Cambridge language teaching library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocabulary.

Physical Description:

x, 383 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Summary:

This volume examines what vocabulary is and how it behaves, how the mind learns vocabulary and uses it, and pedagogical issues of teaching and testing L2 vocabulary.

Contents:

Vocabulary size, text coverage and word lists / Paul Nation and Robert Waring

Written and spoken vocabulary / Michael McCarthy and Ronald Carter

Vocabulary connections : multi-word items in English / Rosamund Moon

On the role of context in first- and second-language vocabulary learning / William Nagy

Receptive vs. productive aspects of vocabulary / Francine Melka

Towards a new approach to modelling vocabulary acquisition / Paul Meara

Vocabulary acquisition : word structure, collocation, word-class, and meaning / Nick C. Ellis

What's in a word that makes it hard or easy : some intralexical factors that affect the learning of words / Batia Laufer

The influence of the mother tongue on second language vocabulary acquisition and use / Michael Swan

Learning the orthographical form of L2 vocabulary : a receptive and a productive process / Ann Ryan

Vocabulary learning strategies / Norbert Schmitt

Current trends in teaching second language vocabulary / Anita J. Sökmen

Incorporating vocabulary into the syllabus / Felicity O'Dell

Vocabulary reference works in foreign language learning / Phil Scholfield

Vocabulary and testing / John Read.

Notes:

Includes bibliographgical references (332-371) and indexes.

ISBN:

0521584841

0521585511

OCLC:

37748597