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Chapter 2: History of Vocabulary in Language Teaching

Chapter 2: History of Vocabulary in Language Teaching

pp. 18-31

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, University of Nottingham, , Nottingham Trent University
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Summary

Chapter 2 provides a historical perspective to vocabulary teaching. It covers how vocabulary was addressed in methodologies ranging from Grammar-Translation to communicative language teaching. It then looks at how vocabulary testing has developed over the last 100 years.

Keywords

  • Vocabulary Control Movement
  • Grammar-Translation
  • Direct Method
  • Audiolingualism
  • <span class='italic'>General Service List</span>
  • Communicative Language Teaching
  • corpora
  • vocabulary testing

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