ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of vocabulary; and key issues in teaching, researching, and measuring vocabulary, this Handbook:

• brings together a wide range of approaches to learning words to provide clarity on how best vocabulary might be taught and learned;

• provides a comprehensive discussion of the key issues and challenges in vocabulary studies, with research taken from the past 40 years;

• includes chapters on both formulaic language as well as single-word items;

• features original contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research.

The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies is an essential text for those interested in teaching, learning, and researching vocabulary.

chapter 1|12 pages

Introduction

part I|210 pages

Understanding Vocabulary

chapter 6|16 pages

Frequency as a Guide for Vocabulary Usefulness

High-, Mid-, and Low-Frequency Words

chapter 7|14 pages

Academic Vocabulary

chapter 8|14 pages

Technical Vocabulary

part II|146 pages

Approaches to Teaching and Learning Vocabulary

chapter 15|15 pages

Incidental Vocabulary Learning

part III|108 pages

Measuring Knowledge of Vocabulary

chapter 27|14 pages

Measuring the Ability to Learn Words

chapter 28|21 pages

Sensitive Measures of Vocabulary Knowledge and Processing

Expanding Nation’s Framework 1

chapter 29|23 pages

Measuring Lexical Richness

part IV|114 pages

Key Issues in Teaching, Researching, and Measuring Vocabulary

chapter 30|14 pages

Key Issues in Teaching Single Words

chapter 32|18 pages

Single, but Not Unrelated

Key Issues in Researching Single-Word Items