An alphabetised list of vocabulary references

1.1 Books

1.2 Collections of abstracts, bibliographies, articles on individuals

1.3 Surveys of vocabulary learning, introductions to collections of articles

1.4 Book reviews

1.5 Articles not directly on vocabulary

2.1 Aspects of knowing a word

2.2 Vocabulary difficulty, interference

2.3 Models, working memory

2.4 Active/passive

2.5 Word form - spoken and written, spelling

2.6 Grammar
3 Concepts

3.1 L1 concept development

3.2 Lexical storage and search

3.3 Homonymy, polysemy, senses

3.4 L2 concept learning and teaching, attrition
4 Associations

4.1 Associations, metaphor

5.1 Analysis of collocation

5.2 Teaching and learning collocations
6 Word building, first language influence

6.1 L1 acquisition of morphology

6.2 Lists of word parts, sources of English vocabulary

6.3 L2 acquisition of morphology

6.4 Cognates and loan words, L1 borrowing and influence, etymology and learning

6.5 Teaching word parts

6.6 Lexical bar
7 Vocabulary size

7.1 Vocabulary size of very young L1 children

7.2 Vocabulary size of L1 school children

7.3 Vocabulary size of L1 adults

7.4 Vocabulary size and growth of L2 learners

7.5 Methodology of vocabulary size measurement

8 Word lists and frequency counts

8.1 Theory and critiques of word frequency lists, core vocabulary

8.2 Word counts

8.3 Grade school lists

8.4 Corpus research
9 ESL word lists and graded readers lists

9.1 Discussion of ESL vocabulary counts and lists

9.2 Simplification

9.3 Studies of graded readers, reviews

9.4 Learning from extensive reading

9.5 Graded reader lists, EPER

9.6 ESL lists

9.7 Publishers’ catalogues of graded readers

10.1 Learning and dealing with vocabulary in specialised texts

10.2 Vocabulary in specialised texts

10.3 Specialised vocabulary lists

11.1 Conditions

11.2 Repetition and spacing

11.3 Levels of processing

11.4 Affective factors, gender, style
12 Vocabulary and listening

12.1 Learning through listening in L1

12.2 Learning through listening in L2
13 Vocabulary and speaking

13.1 Learning through speaking in L1

13.2 Learning through speaking in L2
14 Vocabulary and reading

14.1 How much vocabulary is needed for reading?

14.2 Vocabulary knowledge helps reading, preteaching

14.3 Readability

14.4 Learning vocabulary through reading

14.5 Extensive reading (check with 9.4)

15.1 Lexical diversity, assessing the vocabulary component of writing

15.2 Errors

15.3 Vocabulary knowledge helps writing

16.1 Vocabulary and discourse

17.1 Vocabulary strategies

18.1 Context clues

18.2 Observational studies of guessing

18.3 L1 learning from guessing

18.4 L2 learning from guessing

18.5 Learning to guess

19.1 Rote learning

19.2 Learning with sentence contexts, instantiation

20 Keyword

20.1 Reviews

20.2 1L learning with keyword

20.3 2L learning with keyword

21 Dictionaries

21.1 Reviews of dictionaries

21.2 Comparing and evaluating dictionaries

21.3 Using dictionaries

21.4 Glossing

21.5 Definitions, defining vocabularies
22 Teaching

22.1 Teaching vocabulary

22.2 Techniques and procedures

22.3 Computer Assisted Vocabulary Learning, concordances

22.4 Building vocabulary for reading
23 Planning

23.1 Planning the vocabulary component of a course

24.1 Testing and test formats

24.2 Comparing formats

24.3 Testing depth of knowledge

24.4 Particular tests, EVST, VLT etc
A list of vocabulary references
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