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Vocabulary : description, acquisition and pedagogy

Title
  1. Vocabulary : description, acquisition and pedagogy / edited by Norbert Schmitt and Michael McCarthy.
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  1. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

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Additional authors
  1. Schmitt, Norbert.
  2. McCarthy, Michael, 1947-
Description
  1. x, 383 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. 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.
Series statement
  1. Cambridge language teaching library
Uniform title
  1. Cambridge language teaching library
Subject
  1. Vocabulary
  2. Vocabulary
  3. vocabulary
  4. Fremdsprachenunterricht
  5. Wortschatz
  6. Aufsatzsammlung
  7. Woordenschat
  8. Tweedetaalverwerving
  9. Langues > Étude et enseignement
  10. Vocabulaire > Étude et enseignement
Genre/Form
  1. controlled vocabularies.
  2. Controlled vocabularies
  3. Controlled vocabularies.
  4. Vocabulaires contrôlés.
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographgical references and index.