Thornbury, Scott

How to teach Vocabulary Scott Thornbury - England Pearson 2009 - 185 p. 25 cm - Always Learning .

Contents, index.

Introduction
1 - What's the word ?
2 - How words are learned
3 - Classroom sources of words
4 - Texts, dictionaries and corpora
5 - How to present vocabulary
6 - How to put words to work
7 - Teaching word parts and word chunks
8 - How to test vocabulary
9 - How to train good vocabulary learners
Task file

How to teach vocabulary is a practical guide for teachers who wish to develop their skills and learn about recent developments in this important area. The book includes :
- a description of how words are learned
- a guide to useful sources of vocabulary for classroom use
- approaches to presenting and consolidating vocabulary knowledge
- ways of testing vocabulary
- a task file of photocopiable training tasks

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English language
Listening comprehension
Language teaching
Teacher trainers
Classroom techniques
vocabulary

420.71 / THO