How Vocabulary is Learned

Author: Stuart Webb
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019440353X
Category : Study Aids
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
This guide to vocabulary acquisition is essential reading for teachers of English as a second or foreign language. It presents the major ideas and principles that relate to the teaching and learning of vocabulary and evaluates a wide range of practical activities designed to help boost students’ vocabulary acquisition. Key questions which are answered include: • How many words should students learn at a time, and how often? • How much classroom time should be spent teaching vocabulary? • What is the best way to group vocabulary for learning? • Is it useful to provide students with the L1 translations of unknown words? • Why do some students make greater progress than others? stuart webb is Professor in Applied Linguistics at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. paul nation is Emeritus Professor in Applied Linguistics at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. 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)

How Vocabulary is Learned

Author: Stuart Webb
Publisher: Oxford
ISBN: 9780194403559
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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' vocabularylearning.

Vocabulary Instruction

Author: Edward J. Kame'enui
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 1462504000
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
This highly regarded work brings together prominent authorities on vocabulary teaching and learning to provide a comprehensive yet concise guide to effective instruction. The book showcases practical ways to teach specific vocabulary words and word-learning strategies and create engaging, word-rich classrooms. Instructional activities and games for diverse learners are brought to life with detailed examples. Drawing on the most rigorous research available, the editors and contributors distill what PreK-8 teachers need to know and do to support all students' ongoing vocabulary growth and enjoyment of reading. New to This Edition*Reflects the latest research and instructional practices.*New section (five chapters) on pressing current issues in the field: assessment, authentic reading experiences, English language learners, uses of multimedia tools, and the vocabularies of narrative and informational texts.*Contributor panel expanded with additional leading researchers.

Insights into Non-native Vocabulary Teaching and Learning

Author: Rubén Chacón-Beltrán
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
ISBN: 1847694802
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
In a field like L2 vocabulary teaching and learning where interest and research studies are burgeoning, this book offers a useful collection of papers that contains new ways of investigating vocabulary development, techniques for vocabulary teaching such as the Focus on Form hypothesis, word associations, and the use of concordance data. In addition, it tackles recent areas of analysis such as the treatment of vocabulary in teaching materials—an area of almost complete neglect in the literature. The book is divided into three parts. Part one provides the overview and deals with the development of a model for vocabulary teaching and learning. Part two focuses on empirical studies on lexical processing in English and Spanish. Part three centers on materials design for vocabulary teaching and learning. The advances made in this book will certainly be of interest to researchers, teachers, and graduate students working on this very active field of inquiry.

Learning Vocabulary in Another Language

Author: I. S. P. Nation
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521800927
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 14

Book Description
This book provides pedagogical suggestions for both teachers and learners.

Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

Author: Elfrieda H. Hiebert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135605440
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 331

Book Description
Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over the last two decades. Recognizing this, the U.S. Department of Education recently sponsored a Focus on Vocabulary conference that attracted the best-known and most active researchers in the vocabulary field. This book is the outgrowth of that conference. It presents scientific evidence from leading research programs that address persistent issues regarding the role of vocabulary in text comprehension. Part I examines how vocabulary is learned; Part II presents instructional interventions that enhance vocabulary; and Part III looks at which words to choose for vocabulary instruction. Other key features of this timely new book include: *Broad Coverage. The book addresses the full range of students populating current classrooms--young children, English Language Learners, and young adolescents. *Issues Focus. By focusing on persistent issues from the perspective of critical school populations, this volume provides a rich, scientific foundation for effective vocabulary instruction and policy. *Author Expertise. Few volumes can boast of a more luminous cast of contributing authors (see table of contents). This book is suitable for anyone (graduate students, in-service reading specialists and curriculum directors, college faculty, and researchers) who deals with vocabulary learning and instruction as a vital component of reading proficiency.

The Vocabulary Book

Author: Michael F. Graves
Publisher: Teachers College Press
ISBN: 0807757268
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
This new second edition includes two entirely new chapters on selecting vocabulary words for study and vocabulary instruction for English Language Learners. In addition, every chapter has been substantially updated to incorporate discussion of next-generation standards. Incorporating the newest research in vocabulary acquisition into the four-part model of vocabulary instruction that made the first edition a bestseller, this edition emphasizes vocabulary as an important tool in meeting the needs of increasingly diverse students K-12. It also includes new instructional approaches to teaching vocabulary that have been developed and classroom-tested since the release of the first edition.

Growing Your Vocabulary: Learning from Latin and Greek Roots - Book C

Author:
Publisher: Prestwick House Inc
ISBN: 9781580498722
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description

Bringing Words to Life

Author: Isabel L. Beck
Publisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 146250826X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K–12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words. Grounded in research, the book explains how to select words for instruction, introduce their meanings, and create engaging learning activities that promote both word knowledge and reading comprehension. The authors are trusted experts who draw on extensive experience in diverse classrooms and schools. Sample lessons and vignettes, children's literature suggestions, "Your Turn" learning activities, and a Study Guide for teachers enhance the book's utility as a classroom resource, professional development tool, or course text. The Study Guide can also be downloaded and printed for ease of use (www.guilford.com/beck-studyguide). New to This Edition *Reflects over a decade of advances in research-based vocabulary instruction. *Chapters on vocabulary and writing; assessment; and differentiating instruction for struggling readers and English language learners, including coverage of response to intervention (RTI). *Expanded discussions of content-area vocabulary and multiple-meaning words. *Many additional examples showing what robust instruction looks like in action. *Appendix with a useful menu of instructional activities. See also the authors' Creating Robust Vocabulary: Frequently Asked Questions and Extended Examples, which includes specific instructional sequences for different grade ranges, as well as Making Sense of Phonics, Second Edition: The Hows and Whys, by Isabel L. Beck and Mark E. Beck, an invaluable resource for K–3.

Mind Your Words

Author: Prudent Injeeli
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1466991313
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 333

Book Description
Words form the building blocks of our thought processes. Because of this, our choice of wording can be vital to our ways of thinking. Building on this concept, Dr. Prudent Injeeli' Mind Your Words: Master the Art of Learning and Teaching Vocabulary presents groundbreaking work in the study of language and linguistics, particularly in the field of semantics. It offers a wide variety techniques and methods of learning and teaching vocabulary and provides essential information on many aspects of word knowledge, word formation and word usage. Injeeli addresses a number of topics that open a new world of knowledge about words, their origin, their structure and pronunciation, and so on. He also includes vocabulary lists developed by prominent linguists for enhancing vocabulary skills. Mind Your Words: Master the Art of Learning and Teaching Vocabulary shares insight into the morphological and semantic aspects of word knowledge that can help anyone understand the concepts involved in the language arts. You can gain knowledge about language and improve the skills needed to share that knowledge with others.