Description
The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of vocabulary; and key issues in teaching, researching, and measuring vocabulary, this Handbook:
• brings together a wide range of approaches to learning words to provide clarity on how best vocabulary might be taught and learned;
• provides a comprehensive discussion of the key issues and challenges in vocabulary studies, with research taken from the past 40 years;
• includes chapters on both formulaic language as well as single-word items;
• features original contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research.
The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies is an essential text for those interested in teaching, learning, and researching vocabulary.
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
Stuart Webb
Part I UNDERSTANDING VOCABULARY
2 The different aspects of vocabulary knowledge
Paul Nation
3 Classifying and identifying formulaic language
David Wood
4 An overview of conceptual models and thories of lexical representation in the mental lexicon
Brigitta Dóczi
5 The relationship between vocabulary knowledge and language proficiency
David D. Qian and Linda Lin
6 Frequency as a guide for vocabulary usefulness: High-, mid- and low-frequency words
Laura Vilkaitė-Lozdienė and Norbert Schmitt
7 Academic vocabulary
Averil Coxhead
8 Technical vocabulary
Dilin Liu and Lei Lei
9 Factors affecting the learning of single word items
Elke Peters
10 Factors affecting the learning of multiword items
Frank Boers
11 Learning single words vs. multiword items
Ana Pellicer-Sánchez
12 Processing single- and multi-word items
Kathy Conklin
13 L1 and L2 vocabulary size and growth
Imma Miralpeix
14 How does vocabulary fit into theories of second language learning?
Judit Kormos
Part Ⅱ APPROACHES TO TEACHING AND LEARNING VOCABULARY
15 Incidental vocabulary learning
Stuart Webb
16 Intentional L2 vocabulary learning
Seth Lindstromberg
17 Approaches to learning vocabulary inside the classroom
Jonathan Newton
18 Strategies for learning vocabulary
Peter Yongqi Gu
19 Corpus-based wordlists in second language vocabulary research, learning, and teaching
Thi Ngoc Yen Dang
20 Learning words with flashcards and wordcards
Tatsuya Nakata
21 Resources for learning single-word items
Oliver Ballance and Tom Cobb
22 Resources for learning multi-word items
Fanny Meunier
23 Evaluating exercises for learning vocabulary
Batia Laufer
Part III MEASURING KNOWLEDGE OF VOCABULARY
24 Measuring depth of vocabulary knowledge
Akifumi Yanagisawa and Stuart Webb
25 Measuring knowledge of multiword items
Henrik Gyllstad
26 Measuring vocabulary learning progress
Benjamin Kremmel
27 Measuring the ability to learn words
Yosuke Sasao
28 Sensitive measures of vocabulary knowledge and processing: Expanding Nation’s framework
Aline Godfroid
29 Measuring lexical richness
Kristopher Kyle
Part IV KEY ISSUES IN TEACHING, RESEARCHING, AND MEASURING VOCABULARY
30 Key issues in teaching single word items
Joe Barcroft
31 Key issues in teaching multiword items
Brent Wolter
32 Single, but not unrelated: Key issues in teaching single word items
Tessa Spätgens and Rob Schoonen
33 Key issues in researching multiword items
Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Taha Omidian
34 Key issues in measuring vocabulary knowledge
John Read
35 Resources for researching vocabulary
Laurence Anthony
Index
