The research-based Focus on Vocabulary series breaks down vocabulary acquisition tasks into achievable, short-term language acquisition goals. Excerpts from popular material give students hands-on preparation for understanding vocabulary as it is found social, academic, and workplace settings.
Learners need to have a very large vocabulary an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 word families according to recent research, to function effectively in an English-speaking environment, and even more to read a range of authentic texts. Now in an expanded two-book series, the research-based Focus on Vocabulary breaks down this seemingly daunting task into achievable, short-term language acquisition goals.
Focus on Vocabulary 2: Mastering the Academic Word List uses thorough recycling of academic words and well-crafted exercises to introduce high-intermediate and advanced students to the vocabulary they need for academic and testtaking success.
Features:
Uses excerpts from popular material to give students handson preparation for understanding vocabulary found in social, academic, and workplace settings.
Assessing Your Vocabulary Knowledge helps students determine their level of familiarity with each chapter’s target words.
Within each chapter, target words are carefully recycled in the reading passage and through activities focusing on word meanings, word families, and collocations.
Strategy practice chapters offer tips for dictionary use, essay writing, word-knowledge expansion, and other vocabulary centered tasks.
New reading strategies sections in Focus on Vocabulary 2 help students identify text structure and synthesize ideas across texts, among other skills.
Answer Keys and Tests for Levels 1 and 2 available free online.
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