Over the last 20 years vocabulary research has grown from a Cinderella subject to a position of some importance. Vocabulary is now considered integral to just about every aspect of language knowledge and is a lively and vital area of research and innovation. With this development have come standard and widely-used tests, such as vocabulary size and lexical richness measures, and commonly accepted metaphors, such as the mental lexicon as a web of words. Less widely known outside academic circles, however, is the extensive work on learners' lexis and the utility, reliability and validity of the tests we use to measure and investigate it. This volume brings together contributions from internationally-renowned researchers in this field to explain much of the background to study in this area. It introduces to a wider audience the concerns, the newest approaches and developments in the field of vocabulary research and testing.
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9780521878517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94418574
Product Key Features
Book Title
Modelling and Assessing Vocabulary Knowledge
Author
Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Helmut Daller, James Milton
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
584g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
Cambridge Applied Linguistics
Editor
Helmut Daller, Jeanine Treffers-Daller, James Milton