Exploring Vocabulary

The book aims to equip language teachers and professionals with a framework for dealing with the vocabulary needs of English language learners in a variety of contexts, for a range of learners.

Dee Gardner is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and TESOL at Brigham Young University.　 He is the co-author of A Frequency Dictionary of Contemporary American English (Routledge, 2010).

1. Introduction 2. The vocabulary of vocabulary 3. Core vocabulary 4. Register-specific vocabulary 5. The tasks of vocabulary learning 6. Building vocabulary knowledge 7. Conclusions