How to teach vocabulary /
Scott Thornbury
- Malasia Pearson Education 2002
- 185 p.
WHAT`S IN A WORD?. Identifying words. Word classes. Multi-word units. COLLOCATIONS. How words are learned. How important is vocabulary?. What does it mean to know a word?. WHY DO WE FORGET WORDS?. What are the implications for teaching?. Classroom sources of words. Lists. COURSEBOOKS. Vocabulary books. Texts, dictionaries and corpora. Short texts. BOOKS AND READERS. Dictionaries. How to present vocabulary. Presenting vocabulary. USING TRANSLATION. How to illustrate meaning. How to put words to work. Integrating new knowledge into old. DECISION-MAKING TASKS. Production tasks. Teaching word parts and word chunks. Teaching word formation and word combination. A LEXICAL APPROACH. Teaching lexical chunks. How to test vocabulary. Why test vocabulary?. WHAT TO TEST. Types of test. How to train good vocabulary learners. Learner training. USING MNEMONICS. Word cards. Guessing from context.