How to Teach Vocabulary

By S. Thornbury. 2002

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The Comparison between Regular and Flipped Classrooms for EFL Korean Adult Learners (2015, background): “In order to support learning meanings, vocabulary instruction through spoken input is an effective way to extend vocabulary size with contextualized vocabulary and induced examples (Nation, 2001; Thornbury, 2002).”
A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching1 (2012, background): “The most frequent 2,000 word families form the traditional cut-off point for high frequency vocabulary, a tradition widely cited in teacher guidebooks and research publications (e.g. Nation 1990, 2001a; Read 2000; Schmitt 2000; Thornbury 2002).”
Vocabulary acquisition from extensive reading: A case study (2006, unknown): “…facilitates learner autonomy, can be very pleasant and motivating, provides learners with the opportunity to meet words in their context of use (Thornbury, 2002), increases sight vocabulary (Coady, 1997; Nagy, Herman and Anderson, 1985; Nation and Coady, 1988), and could theoretically result…”