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Vocabulary Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching

Vocabulary Myths: Applying Second Language Research to Classroom Teaching

Folse, Keith S.

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Series: Myths

English as a Second LanguageBilingual EducationTeaching Instruction

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ISBN10: 0472030299
ISBN13: 9780472030293
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT
Published: Mar 10 2004
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.51 Width: 6.02 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

In Vocabulary Myths, Keith S. Folse breaks down the teaching of second language vocabulary into eight commonly held myths. In debunking each myth, he introduces the myth with a story based on his 25 years of teaching experience (in the United States and abroad), continues with a presentation of what empirical research has shown on the topic, and finishes with a list of what teachers can do in their classrooms to facilitate true vocabulary acquisition.

The goal of Vocabulary Myths is to foster a paradigm shift that correctly views vocabulary as fundamental in any second language learning process and demonstrates that research supports this goal-that in fact there is a wealth of empirical evidence to support these views. In addition, an important theme is that teachers have overestimated how much vocabulary students really understand, and as a result, the so-called comprehensible input is neither comprehensible nor input.

The second language vocabulary acquisition myths reexamined in this book are:

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