It is the experience of most language teachers that the single, biggest component of any language course is vocabulary. No matter how well the student learns grammar, no matter how successfully the sounds of L2 are mastered, without words to express a wide range of meanings, communication in an L2 just cannot happen in any meaningful way. And yet vocabulary often seems to be the least systematized and the least well catered for of all the aspects of learning a foreign language. The purpose of this book is to look at what we do know about the vocabulary of a language like English and to reflect on how this has been applied in language teaching.
TOEFL Vocabulary Quiz Book Kaplan’s TOEFL Vocabulary Quiz Book is guaranteed to make learning TOEFL vocabulary words simple and fun. This unique portable resource includes 350 words frequently tested on the TOEFL, definitions and corresponding forms in different parts of speech, and sample sentences showing each word’s meaning in context.
Start Building Your Vocabulary is part of a series of four graded books designed to increase students' vocabulary from elementary to the high-intermediate level. Over 1,000 words and phrases are taught to make vocabulary learning more systematic and fun.
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A solid vocabulary is crucial for testing, writing, and the precise communication required by daily life.
Using a contextual approach, Wordly Wise 3000 students are taught to say unfamiliar words and identify any possible similarities to other words, use the word in context, break the word down into parts, and finally look it up. Three thousand carefully selected words taken from literature, textbooks, and SAT-prep books form the backbone of this vocabulary series.
