Teaching and learning vocabulary

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I. CURRENT TRENDS IN TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE VOCABULARY
1.1.    Incorporating vocabulary into the syllabus …………………………. 3
1.2.    Incorporating vocabulary in textbooks ………………………………8
1.3.    Current trends in teaching foreign language vocabulary …………….11
1.3.1   Inferring from context ……………………………………………….11
1.3.2   Explicit teaching ……………………………………………………..13
1.3.3   Semantic elaboration ………………………………………...............18
1.3.4   Collocations and lexical phrases ……………………………………..21
1.4.    Conclusions ………………………………………………………….23
       References
CHAPTER II    VOCABULARY IN ADVANCED CLASSES
2.1.  Advanced students ……………………………………………...........24
2.2.    Dictionaries as passports to independence …………………………...24
2.3.    Special learners’ dictionaries …………………………………………27
2.4.    Classroom sources of words………………………………………….29
2.4.1.  Lists…………………………………………………………………..29
2.4.2.  Coursebooks………………………………………………………….31
2.4.3.  Vocabulary books…………………………………………………….34
2.4.4.  The teacher…………………………………………………………...35
2.4.5.  Other students………………………………………………………..36
2.5.    Conclusions…………………………………………………………..38
        References
CHAPTER III   VOCABULARY TEACHING ACTIVITIES
3.1.    Comprehension and production in advanced classes…………………40
3.2.    Words with more than one grammatical function………………….…42
3.3.    Learning more advanced vocabulary for use…………………………45
3.4.    An example of inference of word-meaning…………………………...47
3.5.    Use of translation…………………………………………………….53
3.6.    Communicative vocabulary activities………………………………...53
3.6.1.  Exercises……………………………………………………………..54
3.6.2.  Games………………………………………………………………..64
3.6.3.  Tests…………………………………………………………………66
3.7.    Conclusions………………………………………………………….69
        References
CONCLUSIONS ......................................................................................................71
BIBLIOGRAPHY ……………………………………………………………………73
APPENDIX …………………………………………………………………………...74