This book presents the current state of knowledge in the vibrant and diverse field of vocabulary studies, reporting innovative empirical investigations, summarising the latest research, and showcasing topics for future investigation. The chapters are organised around the key themes of theorising and measuring vocabulary knowledge, formulaic language, and learning and teaching vocabulary. Written by world-leading vocabulary experts from across the globe, the contributions present a variety of research perspectives and methodologies, offering insights from cutting-edge work into vocabulary, its learning and use. The book will be essential reading for postgraduate students and researchers interested in the area of second language acquisition, with a particular focus on vocabulary, as well as to those working in the broader fields of applied linguistics, TESOL and English studies.
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Contributors
Michael Mc Carthy: Foreword
1. Samuel Barclay and Paweł Szudarski: Introduction
Part 1: Theorizing and Testing Vocabulary
2. Stuart Webb: Innovation in Measures of Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge
3. Beatriz González-Fernández: Vocabulary Knowledge: Lexical Depth and Its Relationship with Out-of-Class Exposure
4. Benjamin Kremmel: Does One Size Fit All? Comparing Two Computer-Adaptive Algorithms for a Diagnostic Vocabulary Test
5. Wen-ta Tseng: The Effects of Item Exposure Control on English Vocabulary Size Estimates in Computerized-Adaptive Testing
Part 2: Formulaic Language
6. Batia Laufer: Formulaic Sequences and Second Language Learning
7. Phil Durrant and Mark Brenchley: The Development of Academic Collocations in Children’s Writing
8. Ana Pellicer-Sánchez, Laura Vilkaitė-Lozdienė and Anna Siyanova-Chanturia: Examining L2 Learners’ Confidence of Collocational Knowledge
9. Taha Omidian, Anna Siyanova-Chanturia and Phil Durrant: Predicting Parameters of Variation in the Use of Academic Multiword Expressions in University Student Writing
Part 3: Learning and Teaching L2 Vocabulary
10. Paul Nation and Averil Coxhead: Vocabulary Learning and Teaching
11. Tomoko Ishii: The Role of Visual Imagery in Semantic Clustering
12. Suhad Sonbul and Marijana Macis: The Deliberate Learning of L2-L1 Word Lists: Effectiveness and Learners’ Perceptions
13. Ron Martinez: A Student-Generated Vocabulary Syllabus in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) Context
Conclusion
14. Pawel Szudarski and Samuel Barclay: Looking Back and Moving Forward in Vocabulary Studies
Zoltán Dörnyei: Afterword
Appendix
Index
Over de auteur
Samuel Barclay is Senior Lecturer of TESOL at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His work spans English language teaching, English for academic purposes, syllabus design, and second language acquisition, with a specific interest in all aspects of second language vocabulary studies.