Thornbury, Scott  1950- <br/><br/>
How to Teach Vocabulary / 
Scott Thornbury. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Harlow, UK :  Pearson Longman,  2002. 
 - vi, 185 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
 - How to Teach .
<br/><br/>Includes index and a further reading section. Also includes a a Task File of photocopiable training tasks.  
<br/><br/>1. What's in a word? -- Introduction -- Identifying words -- Word classes -- Word families -- Word formation -- Multi-word units -- Collocations -- Homonyms -- Polysemes -- Synonyms and antonyms -- Hyponyms -- Lexical fields -- Style and connotation<br/><br/> 2. How words are learned -- How important is vocabulary? -- What does it mean to 'know a word'? -- How is our word knowledge organised? -- How is vocabulary learned? -- How many words does a learner need to know? -- How are words remembered? -- Why do we forget words? -- What makes a word difficult? -- What kind of mistakes do learners make? -- What are the implications for teaching? 3. Classroom sources of words -- Lists -- Coursebooks -- Vocabulary books -- The teacher -- Other students<br/><br/> 4. Texts, dictionaries and corpora -- Short texts -- Books and readers -- Dictionaries -- Corpus data<br/><br/> 5. How to present vocabulary -- Presenting vocabulary -- Using translation -- How to illustrate meaning -- How to explain meaning -- How to highlight the form -- How to involve the learners<br/><br/> 6. How to put words to work -- Integrating new knowledge into old -- Decision-making tasks -- Production tasks -- Games<br/><br/> 7. Teaching word parts and word chunks -- Teaching word formation and word combination -- A lexical approach -- Teaching lexical chunks -- Teaching word grammar -- Teaching phrasal verbs -- Teaching idioms<br/><br/> 8. How to test vocabulary -- Why test vocabulary? -- What to test -- Types of test -- Measuring word knowledge -- Assessing vocabulary size -- Doing action research<br/><br/> 9. How to train good vocabulary learners -- Learner training -- Using mnemonics -- Word cards -- Guessing from context -- Coping strategies for production -- Using dictionaries -- Spelling rules -- Keeping records -- Motivation<br/><br/> 
<br/><br/> "How To Teach Vocabulary is for teachers at the beginning of their careers and for more experiences teachers. It is for those wanting to develop their skills and to find out more about recent developments, such as language corpora and lexical approaches to teaching." (Back Cover) 
<br/><br/> "How To Teach Vocabulary is for teachers at the beginning of their careers and for more experiences teachers." (Book Cover) 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780582429666 (pbk) 0582429668 (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA2-17225 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Vocabulary--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.<br/> Anglais (Langue)--Vocabulaire --Étude et enseignement.