Vocabulary: Description, Acquisition and Pedagogy

By: SchmittNorbert

This volume examines the area of second language vocabulary studies from three broad perspectives: description, acquisition and pedagogical context. The fifteen chapters are grouped together to achieve a balance between descriptions of what vocabulary is and how it behaves, how the mind learns and uses new vocabulary, and the pedagogical issues of teaching and testing L2 vocabulary. Some of the specific topics addressed in these three general areas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521585511
• ISBN13: 9780521585514
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"