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Scott Thombdury
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pages 95. 150 and 165,Contents
Introduction
1
What's in a word?
Introduction
Identifying words
Word classes
Word families
Word formation
Multi-word units
Collocations
Homonyms
Polysemes
Synonyms and antonyms
Hyponyms
Lexical fields
Style and connoration
How words are learned
How important is vocabulary?
What does it mean to ‘know a word’?
How is our word knowledge organised?
How is vocabulary learned?
How many words does a learner need to know?
How are words remembere:
Why do we forget words?
What makes a word difficult?
Whaat kind of mistakes do learners make?
What are the implications for teaching?
Classroom sources of words
Lists
Coursebooks
Vocabulary books
The teacher
Other students
Texts, dictionaries and corpora
Short texts
Books and readers
Dictionaries
Corpus data
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