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by Averil Coxhead (Editor)
Because vocabulary is a central building block for all learners, New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary, Revised is designed to make vocabulary teaching almost effortless.
Classroom teachers contributed more than 100 step-by-step activities that fit any context, learner, proficiency level, or technology. This revised volume builds on the work by Paul Nation, one of the leading researchers and teachers in the field and represents the most recent developments, including technology, which lends value and ease to teaching vocabulary. The new edition also addresses the growing demand for preparing international students for academic and professional studies.
Author Biography
Averil Coxhead is the MA Programme Director and a Senior Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She teaches courses on second language learning in the BEdTESOL and the MA in Applied Linguistics/TESOL programs. Averil has taught in New Zealand, England, Estonia, Hungary and Romania. Averil supervises MA and PhD research in the areas of vocabulary use and learning in a second language, with a particular interest in specialised vocabulary, Corpus Linguistics, vocabulary size, English for Academic Purposes and English for Specific Purposes.
