Vocabulary Strategy Training to Enhance Second Language Acquisition in English As a Foreign Language

Download or read book Vocabulary Strategy Training to Enhance Second Language Acquisition in English As a Foreign Language written by MARIA PILAR AGUSTIN. ALONSO LLACH (ANDRES CANGA.) and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together three important aspects within strategy studies. First, it reviews the most outstanding previous studies in the field of vocabulary learning and communication strategies and their role in the second language acquisition and teaching process. Second, it provides empirical research testing general hypotheses in the field on how vocabulary learning strategies are a key component of vocabulary development and how their training improves their frequency of use and effectiveness. Finally, the book proposes a program for strategy training in the L2 classroom and illustrates it with examples from concrete vocabulary learning strategies and proposes exercises to apply them in an autonomous way. This volume will shed light on the field of vocabulary learning strategies and illustrate their practical utility in the foreign language classroom in order to improve the knowledge that teachers and learners have of them.