Word Knowledge

Download or read book Word Knowledge written by Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-02-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cheryl Boyd Zimmerman's Word Knowledge: A Vocabulary Teacher's Handbook investigates the complex nature of teaching and learning words and functions as both a resource and as a reference guide for novice and experienced ESL teachers. Her overall aim is to "help tease apart the complex process of vocabulary learning and teaching and to provide ideas for addressing learners' needs" (p. v). She accomplishes this goal by providing a thorough and comprehensive overview of what it means to truly learn a word.