词汇学习是英语学习的必修课。本书是为英语教师准备的词汇教学实用手册，提供了各种操作性极强的词汇教学活动，篇幅达七十余页，适用于各个学习阶段的学生。同时，书中还深入浅出地介绍了有关词汇教学的语言学及心理学理论，作为对上述词汇教学活动的理论支撑，使英语教师可以更加得心应手地组织词汇教学活动，可谓理论与实践相结合的典范之作。

Acknowledgements

Preface

PART A WORDS:THEIR MEANIGS AND FORMS

 1 Language awareness activities

 2 Words and their meanings

2.1 Conceptual meanin9

2.2 Affective meanin9

2.3 Style，register and dialect

2.4 Sense relations

 2.4.1 Synonymy

 2.4.2 Hyponymy

 2.4.3 Antonymy

 2.4.4 0ther types of relations

 2.4.5 Translation equivalents

2.5 Multi.word verbs

2.6 Idioms

2.7 Collocation

2.8 Componential analysis

 3 Words and theirforms

  3.1 The grammar of vocabulary

  3.2 Word building

  3.3 Pronunciation

PART B PRINCIPLES IN LEARNING ADN TEACHING VOCABULARY

 4 Decisions about content

  4.1 Student responsibility and teacher responsibility

  4.2 Criteria for selection

  4.2.1 Frequency

  4.2.2 Cultural factors

  4.2.3 Need and level

  4.2.4 Expediency

  4.3 Receptive vcrsus productive vocabulary

  4.4 HOW many iterns to teach

  4.5 Grouping of items of vocabulary

 5 How the learner discovers meanin9

  5.1 Traditional approaches and techniques used in the presentation of new vocabulary iterns

  5.1.1 Visual techniques

  5.1.2 Verbal techniques

  5.1.3 Translation

  5.2 Student.centred learnin9

  5.2.1 Asking others

  5.2.2 Using a dictionary

  5.2.3 Contextual guesswork

 6 Memory and written storage

 Teoretical aspects

  6.1 Types of memory

  6.2 0rganisation of the mentallexicon

  6.3 Why do we forget?89

  Practical implications

  6.4 Meaningful tasks

  6.5 lmagery

  6.6 Rote learning

  6.7 Recyclin9

  6.8 Written storage systems for Iearners

PART C CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

 7 Using visuaI aids

  7.1 Using pictures as a guide to meanin9

  7.2 Using pictures for further practice

 8 Using authentic reading texts

 9 Teacher designed contexts and the use of the dictionary

 10 Speaking activities

  10.1 Role play

  10.2 Narrative

  10.3 Processes，priorities and appropriacy

 11 Games，questionnaires and problem solving

PART D VOCABULARY IN COURSE BOOKS

 12 Vocabulary in course books

  12.1 Checklist

  12.2 Extracts from course books

Key

Bibliography

Index