Teaching Vocabulary: Strategies and Techniques

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The Four Strands (2007, background): “Nation and Wang (1999) calculated that second language learners needed to read at least one graded reader every two weeks in order to”
Second Language Vocabulary Growth (2012, background): “Nation (2008) provides useful guidelines for designing activities that include: using the target vocabulary in the instructions, and requiring the use of these words to be central to completing the activity.”
Using Listener Judgments to Investigate Linguistic Influences on L2 Comprehensibility and Accentedness: A Validation and Generalization Study (2015, background): “These and other similar pedagogical techniques have already been featured in many teaching materials focusing on pronunciation (Celce-Murcia et al. 2010), vocabulary (Nation 2008), and grammar (Nassaji and Fotos 2011).”
Teaching ESL/EFL Listening and Speaking (2008, background): “The considerable amount of research on this rote learning procedure clearly shows its effectiveness (Nation, 2001: 296–316; Nation, 2008).”
Extensive Reading and Listening in the L2 Classroom (2016, background): “Words learned in this way can be incorporated into students’ speech and writing (Nation 2008; 2015).”