How to Teach Vocabulary

How to Teach...

by Jeremy Harmer, Scott Thornbury

The Task File develops a teacher's skill in identifying parts of speech including lexical fields, word families, etc. to build more confidence in teaching and explaining words and their use.

Genres: Teaching, Nonfiction, Education, Linguistics, Language

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Csabi Berger · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing and helpful description of how vocabulary can be taught in language classes. I would actually emphasise the importance of all the exemplary material provided by the author as they were the real representantion of what was described throughout the pages. All the chapters are leading to more complex topics related to vocabulary teaching, culminating in the ultimate chapter where testing and revision are mentioned as the most important component of teaching vocabulary properly. The book and the series has helped me a lot and I am looking forward to reading the remaining volumes with the same enthusiasm and expectations.

[Cosima · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall, a very helpful book with a sensible structure and lots of practical ideas for teaching. What I found annoying, though, was the occasional over-simplification of linguistic phenomena as well as the consistent avoidance even of basic linguistic terminology. English teachers should and can be expected to be familiar with the most basic linguistic and grammatical terms, in my humble opinion.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like all the books in the 'How to teach" series, How to teach vocabulary is packed with information and advice.

[yengyeng · Rating 3 out of 5]

I never realised how difficult it was to teach vocabulary until I had to teach it. This book helped.

[Osman]

really good

[Jake · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good intro to the topic. At first, I thought it was way too brief and lacked substance. There were times early on when I mouthed aloud my dissatisfaction, especially where ideas need more exploring, where research and reports were left dangling in the wind. So the theory aspect gets a moderate 3.

But as foundation units were cleared to make room for practical classroom procedures (i.e. Units 6, 7, 8), the practice sections were a 4.5-5.

Anyway, it's brief like others in the How To series, so not overly taxing. For classroom teachers it's critical, baseline knowledge offering some good ideas.

[Yemima Yulia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ideas on vocabulary teaching. It inspired you to start set the lesson.

[Elsa Dyaryke · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am so need this book for my reference

[Nisrina]

It's helps me to know how to teach vocabulary for my students

[Jimmy Kremnev · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every teacher and student should read this book

[Nan Suphaphorn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I also do it with myself!! Very useful

[Muzdhalifah Alqinda]

i want to read about vocabulary as my references about doing my thesis. i think this book will useful for me.

[Mario Tigrero]

it is an essential book for teachers

[Max]

very good for teaching vocabulary