About this title
A revised edition of a leading textbook on second language vocabulary, making vocabulary research and theory accessible to practitioners. The second edition expands coverage of the vocabulary learning process, with new material on incidental and intentional learning and an extended treatment of formulaic language.
Intended audience
- language teachers
- applied linguistics students
- MA TESOL students
- vocabulary researchers
Subject classification
- Applied Linguistics
- Vocabulary Studies
- Second Language Acquisition
- Language Pedagogy
Scope
- nature and size of vocabulary
- what it means to know a word
- corpus frequency and formulaic language
- incidental vocabulary learning
- intentional vocabulary learning
- vocabulary assessment
Chapter themes
- nature and size of vocabulary
- history of vocabulary in language teaching
- knowing a word
- corpus frequency and formulaic language
- incidental and intentional vocabulary learning
- assessing vocabulary knowledge
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Vocabulary in Language Teaching, 2nd Edition
- Year
- 2020
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108476829
- Catalogue authors
- Norbert Schmitt
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