Averil Coxhead

Vocabulary and English for Specific Purposes Research

Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and teaching.

Focussing on quantitative and qualitative approaches, this book draws on a wide range of literature to explores key issues that include: how to identify and categorise specialised vocabulary; and the role and value of word list research in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and ESP. This book features:

An analysis of material in a range of different contexts that include secondary school education, pre-university and university-based education, professional and occupational ESP, and the trades.

inclusion of many examples of specialised vocabulary from research in Aotearoa/New Zealand and from many other areas in the world.

a review of the application of vocabulary research to professional and pedagogical practice

suggestions for future directions for research.

Written by a leading researcher, Vocabulary and English for Specific Purposes Research provides key reading for those working in this area.

Produktdetails

• Routledge Research in English for Specific Purposes
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 11mm x 156mm x 234mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780367594473
• Artikelnr.: 71507027

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Approaches to identifying specialised vocabulary for ESP Chapter Three: The role and value of word list research for ESP Chapter Four: Multi-word units and metaphor in ESP Chapter Five: Specialised vocabulary in secondary school/middle school Chapter Six: Pre-university, undergraduate and postgraduate vocabulary Chapter Seven: Specialised vocabulary research and the professions Chapter Eight: Vocabulary in the trades Chapter Nine: Vocabulary research and ESP: Curriculum, classroom tasks and materials design and testing Chapter Ten: Future directions and conclusion

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Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Approaches to identifying
specialised vocabulary for ESP Chapter Three: The role and value of word
list research for ESP Chapter Four: Multi-word units and metaphor in ESP
Chapter Five: Specialised vocabulary in secondary school/middle school
Chapter Six: Pre-university, undergraduate and postgraduate vocabulary
Chapter Seven: Specialised vocabulary research and the professions Chapter
Eight: Vocabulary in the trades Chapter Nine: Vocabulary research and ESP:
Curriculum, classroom tasks and materials design and testing Chapter Ten:
Future directions and conclusion

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"By bringing together work in such diverse areas and emphasising a range of research approaches and foci, Coxhead gives us a birds-eye view of the field which both enables broader patterns to emerge and will provide most readers with new insights and inspiration."

- Philip Durrant, University of Exeter, TESOL Quarterly