Vocabulary and the Four Skills

Pedagogy, Practice, and Implications for Teaching Vocabulary
Herausgeber: Booth, Paul; Clenton, Jon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume provides a single coherent overview of vocabulary teaching and learning in relation to each of the four skills (reading, writing, listening, speaking). Each of the four sections presents a skill area with two chapters presented by two leading experts in the field, relating recent advances in the field to the extent that each skill area relates differently to vocabulary and how this informs pedagogy and policy. The book opens with a summary of recent advances in the field of vocabulary, and closes by drawing conclusions from the skill areas covered. The chapters respond to emerging vocabulary research trends that indicate that lexical acquisition needs to be treated differently according to the skill area. The editors have chosen chapters to respond to recent research advances and to highlight practical and pedagogical application in a single coherent volume.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780367249977
• ISBN-10: 0367249979
• Artikelnr.: 59883621

Autorenporträt

Jon Clenton is Associate Professor at Hiroshima University, Japan. His main research interests include the assessment of vocabulary knowledge, L2 vocabulary development in terms of bilingual models, second language acquisition, word association studies, lexical processing, and L2 measurement tools. He has examined several vocabulary measurement tools, with focus on attempts to isolate the construct of productive vocabulary knowledge. Paul Booth is Senior Lecturer at Kingston University, London, and teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. His research interests include second language vocabulary, especially individual differences, lexical diversity, and frequency. He has also researched situated learning and language teacher development.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Introduction: Vocabulary and the Four Skills -
Current Issues and Future Concerns Part 2: Listening 2. Vocabulary and
Listening - Current Research, Tools, and Practices 3. Vocabulary Learning
through Listening: Which Words are Easier or More Difficult to Learn and
Why? 4. Vocabulary and Listening 5. Vocabulary and Listening - Future
Research, Tools, and Practices 6. Vocabulary and Reading - Current
Research, Tools, and Practice 7. Building Vocabulary Knowledge from and for
Reading - Ways to Improve Lexical Quality 8. The Validity of The Tem-4 as a
Measure of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension 9. Vocabulary and
Reading - Future Research, Tools, and Practices Part 4: Speaking 10.
Vocabulary and Speaking - Current Research, Tools, and Practices 11.
Investigating the Extent to which Vocabulary Knowledge snd Skills can
Predict Aspects of Fluency for a Small Group of Pre-intermediate Japanese
L1 Users of English L2 12. Re-examining the Relationship between Productive
Vocabulary and Second Language Oral Ability 13. Vocabulary and Speaking -
Future Research, Tools, and Practices Part 5: Writing 14. Vocabulary and
Writing - Current Research, Tools, and Practices 15. Specialised Vocabulary
in Writing: Looking Outside ELT 16. Lexical Development Paths in Relation
to Academic Writing 17. Vocabulary and Writing - Future Research, Tools,
and Practices Part 6: Conclusion 18. Conclusion: Vocabulary and the Four
Skills - Pedagogy and Practice