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16 - Vocabulary and Good Language Teachers

from Part III - Instructional Perspectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2020

By
Thi Ngoc Yen Dang  and
Stuart Webb
Edited by
Carol Griffiths  and
Zia Tajeddin
Carol Griffiths
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
Zia Tajeddin
Affiliation:
Tarbiat Modares University, Iran
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Summary

In Chapter 16, the authors point to the four roles of teachers in vocabulary courses and present research-based suggestions for the effective instruction of vocabulary; they also present a case study that investigated teachers’ perceptions about useful vocabulary, followed by principles required for helping learners with desirable vocabulary learning outcomes.

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vocabularycorpusmeaningfluencyfrequency
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Lessons from Good Language Teachers , pp. 203 - 218
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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