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      Articles on vocabulary

      Discover a broad range of ideas on teaching vocabulary and different vocabulary types in our articles below.

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      Remembering vocabulary

      This article presents ideas on how to help your students remember vocabulary.

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      Presenting vocabulary

      This article looks at what needs to be taught when teaching vocabulary and ways to present and teach vocabulary.

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      Collocation with advanced levels 2- classroom activities

      This article gives an extensive list of classroom activities that focus attention on collocation. This is the second of two articles on the topic.

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      Collocation with advanced levels 1 - not entirely...proper/appropriate/good?

      This article gives an overview of the topic of collocation in English language teaching and shows how this is a key area of study for advanced level students.

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      Multi-word verbs: Methods and approaches

      In the first of these two articles, Multi-word verbs: Learner problems, I looked at some of the problems that multi-word verbs cause students.

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      New words in English

      New words enter the English language all the time - the exact number is uncertain but there are thousands appearing every year.

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      Presenting vocabulary

      This article looks at what needs to be taught when teaching vocabulary and ways to present and teach vocabulary.

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      Remembering vocabulary

      This article presents ideas on how to help your students remember vocabulary.

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      Revising lexis: quality or quantity?

      This article discusses how much attention language teachers should pay to vocabulary acquisition research, particularly with regard to repeated encounters with lexical items.

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      Presenting vocabulary

      This article looks at what needs to be taught when teaching vocabulary and ways to present and teach vocabulary.

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      Collocation with advanced levels 2- classroom activities

      This article gives an extensive list of classroom activities that focus attention on collocation. This is the second of two articles on the topic.

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      Multi-word verbs: Methods and approaches

      In the first of these two articles, Multi-word verbs: Learner problems, I looked at some of the problems that multi-word verbs cause students.

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      Delexicalised verbs

      In the first part of this two part article Shaun Dowling looks at delexicalised verbs, and the problems they cause for our students.

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      Context developing activities

      It is widely recognized that second language (L2) mental lexicon must be independent of its first language (L1) counterpart, if learners are to use the target language effectively and fluently.