Learning and teaching vocabluary: Collected writings.

Einband leicht berieben. - The Four Strands -- How Large a Vocabulary Is Needed for Reading and Listening? -- A Survival Language Learning Syllabus for Foreign Travel -- Helping Learners Take Control of Their Vocabulary Learning -- A Defence of Simplification -- Technical Vocabulary in Specialised Texts How Many Idioms Are There in English? -- Vocabulary Learning and Reading -- Unknown Vocabulary Density and Reading Comprehension -- Planning and Running an Extensive Reading Programme -- Second Language Reading and Incidental Vocabulary Learning -- Evaluating the Vocabulary Load of Written Text -- Speaking Activities and Vocabulary Learning -- Learning Vocabulary in Lexical Sets; Dangers and Guidelines Using Communicative Tasks to Teach Vocabulary -- Techniques for Teaching Vocabulary -- Translation and the Teaching of Meaning; Some Techniques -- Guessing the Meanings of Words from Context; Strategy and Techniques -- An Investigation of Learners' Success in Personalising Vocabulary Learning -- A Vocabulary Size Test -- Measuring Readiness for Simplified Material; A Test of the First Words of English -- A Vocabulary Size Test of Controlled Productive Ability -- A Vocabulary-based Graded Dictation Test -- How Good is Your Vocabulary Program? -- My Ideal Vocabulary Teaching Course. ISBN 9787544620505