The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies provides a cutting-edge survey of current scholarship in this area. Divided into four sections, which cover understanding vocabulary; approaches to teaching and learning vocabulary; measuring knowledge of vocabulary; and key issues in teaching, researching, and measuring vocabulary, this Handbook:
- brings together a wide range of approaches to learning words to provide clarity on how best vocabulary might be taught and learned;
- provides a comprehensive discussion of the key issues and challenges in vocabulary studies, with research taken from the past 40 years;
- includes chapters on both formulaic language as well as single-word items;
- features original contributions from a range of internationally renowned scholars as well as academics at the forefront of innovative research.
The Routledge Handbook of Vocabulary Studies is an essential text for those interested in teaching,
