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2018 UNDERSTANDING VOCABULARY LEARNING AND TEACHING: IMPLICATIONS FOR LANGUAGE PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

 

Contents, acknowledgements, abstracts, contributors

Introduction. Vocabulary learning and teaching: Variables, relationships, materials, and curriculum development

Peter Ecke; Susanne Rott

Articles

Semantic development and L2 vocabulary teaching

Nan Jiang

Semantic development is an integral part of vocabulary learning and teaching in a second language (L2), as an adequate understanding …

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Supporting your brain learning words

Ulf Shuetze

Encountering, processing, retrieving, and articulating words is a dynamic and fluid process. Several brain regions are involved that are associated …

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Minor manipulations matter: Syntactic position influences the effectiveness of incidental vocabulary acquisition during L2 reading

Maria Rogahn; Denisa Bordag; Amit Kirschenbaum; Erwin Tschirner

This chapter reports on a study that addresses the role of syntactic prominence, that is, the perceived importance of sentence …

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The relationship between reading proficiency and vocabulary size: An empirical investigation

Jane F. Hacking; Fernando Rubio; Erwin Tschirner

Studies of the vocabulary size needed to be a proficient second-language reader commonly arrive at numbers that are staggering. The …

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Vocabulary coverage and lexical characteristics in L2 Spanish textbooks

Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez; Nausica Marcos Miguel; Michael K. Olsen

This chapter reports on a study that examined the vocabulary coverage of elementary and intermediate Spanish textbooks used in U.S. …

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der|die|das: Integrating vocabulary acquisition research into an L2 German curriculum

Jamie Rankin

While there has been broad consensus in L2 research regarding the importance of learning L2 vocabulary, and that high-frequency vocabulary …

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Language corpora for L2 vocabulary learning: Data-driven learning across the curriculum

Nina Vyatkina

Empirical Instructed Second Language Acquisition research on L2 vocabulary has shown that Data-Driven Learning (DDL), or teaching and learning languages …

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Setting the lexical EAP bar for ESL students: Lexical complexity of L2 academic presentations

Alla Zareva

This study was conducted with three primary goals in mind: (1) to determine how the academic presentations of native speaking …

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The input-based incremental approach to vocabulary in meaning-oriented instruction for language program directors and teachers

Joe Barcroft

The tenets of input-based incremental (IBI) vocabulary instruction (Barcroft, 2012) include (a) planning for vocabulary-learning opportunities; (b) presenting target words …

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