Vocabulary Theory, Patterning and Teaching

Edited by Paweł Szudarski, Samuel Barclay

Publication date:

20 October 2021

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781788923743

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.

Contributors

Michael McCarthy: 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

With the rediscovery of vocabulary in the 1990s came a new sense of how much applied-ness is appropriate to applied linguistics. Norbert Schmitt, notably, found the sweet spot between scientific rigour and practitioner relatable research, and in this excellent volume we see that his students are more than able to carry the project forward. Not that Norbert himself will be very far away from it for a long time to come!