Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Should Vocabulary Be Taught? Approaches to Vocabulary Learning Points to Consider in Vocabulary Learning The Goals of Vocabulary Learning and Vocabulary Size How Many Words Does a Second Language Learner Need? How Do We Choose What Vocabulary to Teach? Setting Goals for Your Learners Application What Is Involved in Learning a Word? What Is a Word? What Is Involved in Knowing a Word? What Features Make Learning a Word Difficult? Application Communicating Meaning The Teaching of Meaning Definitions Communicating Meaning and Remembering the Meaning Investigating Learning Application Assessing Vocabulary Size Measuring Total Vocabulary Size Measuring Knowledge of a Particular Group of Words Application Vocabulary and Listening What Vocabulary Is Needed to Understand Spoken English? How Can You Test the Size of a Learners Listening Vocabulary? What Should You Do When Your Learners Do Not Have Enough Vocabulary to Understand Spoken English? Application What Should You Do When There Are Some Unknown Words in a Text? What Should You Do When There Are Unknown Words in an English for Special Purposes Text? Application Vocabulary and Writing What Vocabulary Is Needed to Write English? What Should You Do When Learners Do Not Have Enough Vocabulary to Write? Application Learner Strategies Guessing Words in Context Using Mnemonic Techniques Using Prefixes, Roots, and Suffixes Application Simplification of Reading Material Why Simplify? How to Simplify Application Directions in Vocabulary Studies Vocabulary Learning Goals Organizing Vocabulary Learning Vocabulary and Reading Quality of Vocabulary Knowledge Bibliography Words from the General Service List Which Are Not Likely to Be Well-Known A University Word List A Passage with Words of Various Frequency Levels Omitted Words in Context To Examine the Vocabulary of a Textbook Conjunction Relationships Vocabulary Puzzles A Vocabulary Levels Test Index