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Direct linkNation, Paul – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2016
In this article Paul Nation responds to Thomas Cobb's "Numbers or Numerology? A Response to Nation (2014) and McQuillan (2016)" (EJ1117024). Nation begins by clarifying his own position on vocabulary learning and goes on to highlight points made in Cobb's article with which he is in agreement, while drawing from his 2014 article,…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Word Study Skills, Time Factors (Learning), Learner Engagement
Dubuc, Robert – Meta, 1979
Discusses the role of the lexicographer in assisting the translator and the technical writer and in vocabulary control. (AM)
Descriptors: Definitions, Language Skills, Lexicography, Technical Writing
Peer reviewedArmbruster, Bonnie B.; Nagy, William E. – Reading Teacher, 1992
Discusses three major differences between the vocabulary of reading lessons and content area lessons. Discusses the implications these differences make in instruction. (MG)
Descriptors: Content Area Reading, Instructional Effectiveness, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development
Peer reviewedSwiderek, Bobbi – Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 1996
Uses students' amusing vocabulary mistakes to discuss vocabulary development. (SR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Student Writing Models, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development
Michaels, Judith Rowe – 2001
This book argues for a deeper, richer view of vocabulary than the standard images conjured up by that word--worksheets, weekly quizzes, and anxieties about standardized test scores. The book invites teachers and students to experience "the music of words," words in isolation and in juxtapositions, and urges them to bring their own life…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Environment, Instructional Effectiveness, Language Usage
Peer reviewedStotsky, Sandra – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1985
Divides texts into two groups, the first of which teaches a selected group of words; the second teaches strategies for learning vocabulary as well as teaching a selected group of words. (EL)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Basic Vocabulary, Communication Skills, Higher Education
Peer reviewedStotsky, Sandra – College Composition and Communication, 1981
Suggests that nonfictive writing typically employs a vocabulary different from that used in works of fiction. Characterizes the vocabulary of essays, asserts that students are usually not given enough assistance in acquiring such vocabulary, and offers steps for giving students help in acquiring the vocabulary of essays. (RL)
Descriptors: College English, Expository Writing, Language Usage, Literary Styles
