1st Edition

Vocabulary and English for Specific Purposes Research Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives

By Averil Coxhead Copyright 2018
210 Pages
by Routledge

210 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume provides an important contribution to the study of vocabulary and its relationship to English for Specific Purposes (ESP) research and teaching. Focussing on quantitative and qualitative approaches, this book draws on a wide range of literature to explores key issues that include: how to identify and categorise specialised vocabulary; and the role and value of word list... Read more

Chapter One: Introduction  Chapter Two: Approaches to identifying specialised vocabulary for ESP  Chapter Three: The role and value of word list research for ESP  Chapter Four: Multi-word units and metaphor in ESP  Chapter Five: Specialised vocabulary in secondary school/middle school  Chapter Six: Pre-university, undergraduate and postgraduate vocabulary  Chapter Seven: Specialised vocabulary research and the professions  Chapter Eight: Vocabulary in the trades  Chapter Nine: Vocabulary research and ESP: Curriculum, classroom tasks and materials design and testing  Chapter Ten: Future directions and conclusion

Biography

Averil Coxhead is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

"By bringing together work in such diverse areas and emphasising a range of research approaches and foci, Coxhead gives us a birds-eye view of the ¿eld which both enables broader patterns to emerge and will provide most readers with new insights and inspiration."

- Philip Durrant, University of Exeter, TESOL Quarterly