Modelling and Assessing Vocabulary Knowledge

by Jeanine Treffers-Daller and James Milton

Book Overview

Over the last 20 years vocabulary research has grown from a Cinderella subject to a position of some importance. Vocabulary is now considered integral to just about every aspect of language knowledge and is a lively and vital area of research and innovation. With this development have come standard and widely-used tests, such as vocabulary size and lexical richness measures, and commonly accepted metaphors, such as the mental lexicon as a web of words...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521703271
• ISBN13: 9780521703277
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 8.9"