Vocabulary Description, Acquisition and Pedagogy EDITED BY NORBERT SCHMITT d MICHAEL McCARTHY Cambridge Language Teaching Library Pea cee CAMBRIDGE AS50033 368281PUBLISHED BY THE PRESS SYNDICATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE ‘The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CBa 1RP, United Kingdom CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CBa 2RU, United Kingdom 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY roorr-4211, USA 10 Stamford Road, Oakleigh, Melbourne 3166, Australia © Cambridge University Press 1997 This book is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1997 Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge ‘Typeset in Sabon rof/r2 pt [cE] A catalogue record for this book is available from the British library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data applied for ISBN 0 521 58484 r hardback ISBN 0 521 58557 x paperbackContents Acknowledgements Introduction Part r Vocabulary and description t.r Vocabulary size, text coverage and word lists PAUL NATION AND ROBERT WARING 1.2, Written and spoken vocabulary MICHAEL MCCARTHY AND RONALD CARTER 1.3. Vocabulary connections: multi-word items in English ROSAMUND MOON ~ 1.4 On the role of context in first- and second-language vocabulary learning WILLIAM NAGY 1.5 Receptive vs. productive aspects of vocabulary FRANCINE MELKA 1.6 Editors’ comments ~ description section Part 2 Vocabulary and acquisition 2.1 Towards a new approach to modelling vocabulary acquisition PAUL MEARA 2 Vocabulary acquisition: word structure, collocation, word-class, and meaning NICK C, ELLIS 2.3 What’s in a word that makes it hard or easy: some intralexical factors that affect the learning of words BATIA LAUFER page ix 20 40 84 103 109 109 122 140 vii