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How to Teach Vocabulary [Paperback]

Scott Thornbury (Author)
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Publication Date: 18 Feb 2002 | ISBN-10: 0582429668 | ISBN-13: 978-0582429666 | Edition: 1
  • Looks in detail at the theory of words and at how students learn new vocabulary
  • Offers practical advice on how to help students build vocabulary in new and effective ways and how to test students’ word knowledge
  • Major developments, such as language corpora and lexical approaches, are clearly explained and related to your needs as a teacher

The Task File develops a teacher's skill in identifying parts of speech including lexical fields, word families, etc. to build more confidence in teaching and explaining words and their use.

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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Longman; 1 edition (18 Feb 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0582429668
  • ISBN-13: 978-0582429666
  • Product Dimensions: 19 x 1 x 24.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Scott Thornbury is from New Zealand originally but he started his teaching career in the UK in 1975. Since then he has lived and worked in both Egypt and Spain, teaching, training teachers, and writing materials. In 1991 Scott did an MA in TEFL at the University of Reading. He has written a number of books about language teaching (including How to Teach Grammar and How to Teach Vocabulary), as well as lots of articles for journals and magazines (such as Modern English Teacher and English Teaching Professional). Scott has also given conference presentations at conferences in six different continents. At present Scott lives in Barcelona.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How to teach Vocabulary 31 May 2010
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As always this book by Scott Thornbury is excellent. There are lots of good idea for presentation to use for vocabulary for all levels. For a new teacher a must have book and for a teacher who has been teaching for years some new ideas.
Thank you Scott.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely worth searching for a used copy! 13 April 2003
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This book is excellent! A resource for teachers who, like myself, teach quite a lot of vocabulary. The book echoes my own belief on the importance of teaching vocabulary by quoting the linguist, David Wilkins: "Without grammar very little can be conveyed, without vocabulary nothing can be conveyed."

It's apparently out of print and that's a shame because it's the best resource I've found for teaching vocabulary.

I ordered a used copy and although the used book ordering process and the delay in receiving the book was annoying, the book itself was, as advertised, in excellent condition.

To make full use of this book and of the lexical approach to teaching one must have a thorough understanding of vocabulary formation and how learners assimilate vocabulary.

The book contains quite a bit of technical information that might overwhelm but it also contains a sizeable amount of basic information helpful to any teacher teaching vocabulary.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Yet Again, "How To" Hits the Mark 16 Nov 2007
By Bu-Chan - Published on Amazon.com
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Thornbury has proven to be a very good author in the past, and this only served to up the expectations for "How To Teach Vocabulary". Simply put, for an area that I find personally difficult to deal with, this book proved to be a God-send. It combines a good deal of the theory with very practical ideas for utilisation in class.

The book provides a consistent grounding in the jargon used for the area, and gives you a good grounding in how information of this type is organised within people's memory. This view of the workings of memory, whether short-term, working or long term, underpins much of what Thornbury goes on to suggest for the class.

The book covers a large range of topics, all arranged in chapters, including testing, presenting, getting students to work with new lexis, using texts, dictionaries and copora, and a whole range more. Of particular value in my opinion is the chapter on training students to become good vocabulary learners. Training students to learn for themselves outside the class is of ongoing importance, even long after they have left our lessons long behind them.

Throughout the book are example activities, some of which teachers will be familiar with, and others new. These give the reader a good starting point on how to implement some of these ideas and promote a high level of retention among students. It was these that I found very useful, as well.

To put it simply, this book is a goldmine of information and ideas, with a large array of exercises and activities that one can immediately use, later adapting as needed. This is a great book, and I thoroughly recommend it to all.
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