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Current Perspectives in Second Language Vocabulary Research

by David Hirsh (Volume editor)
©2012 Edited Collection 194 Pages
Series: Linguistic Insights, Volume 155

Summary

Reflecting growth in research interest in second language vocabulary over the past 30 years, this edited volume explores the current themes and possible future directions in second language vocabulary research. The collection brings together review papers and quantitative studies, and considers vocabulary in the contexts of teaching, learning and assessment. Key themes explored in the volume include multidimensionality of vocabulary knowledge, the nature of word learnability, the interface between receptive vocabulary knowledge and productive vocabulary use, the partial-to-precise continuum of vocabulary knowledge, conditions favouring vocabulary learning and use, and the use of corpora to develop word lists to inform second language teaching. The themes presented in this volume reflect current thinking and research avenues at the interface between research enquiry and second language teaching practice.

Details

Pages
194
Publication Year
2012
ISBN (PDF)
9783035103793
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034311083
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0379-3
Language
English
Publication date
2012 (July)
Keywords
Language and Second Language Acquisition Applied Linguistics Lexicology Foreign Language Teaching Teaching English and American Language and Literature
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 194 pp.

Biographical notes

David Hirsh (Volume editor)

David Hirsh is senior lecturer in TESOL (Teaching English to speakers of other languages) at the University of Sydney. His research focuses on vocabulary development, academic adjustment, and indigenous language revitalization. He has published in Reading in a Foreign Language and Revue Française de Linguistique Appliquée, and in the volumes Teaching Academic Writing: An introduction for teachers of second language writers (2009) and Continuum Companion to Research Methods in Applied Linguistics (2010). He is co-editor of University of Sydney Papers in TESOL.

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