Focus on Vocabulary: Mastering the Academic Word List

Focus on Vocabulary: Mastering the Academic Word List, by Diane Schmitt and Norbert Schmitt, is a research-based vocabulary textbook that gives high-intermediate to advanced students the advantage they need to succeed in academic environments. Through excerpts from college texts and well-crafted exercises, English learners study the Academic Word List -- the most frequently used words in academic texts. To help students reach a fuller understanding of the new vocabulary, each chapter provides a series of exercises on word meaning and word families. In addition, collocations exercises develop students' ability to form natural partnerships between the target vocabulary and other words.

Features 

• Seven units focus on a variety of subject areas, such as social change, consumer behavior, natural resources, and music.
• Each chapter carefully recycles the target vocabulary four times in reading passages and vocabulary-building exercises.
• The collocation exercises -- based on the 179-million-word New Longman Corpus -- reflect how academic words are actually used in real contexts.
• Strategy Practice chapters offer tips for dictionary usage, information about word roots and affixes, and methods for expanding students' word knowledge.
• An Expansion section at the end of each chapter provides additional reading, discussion, and writing activities that broaden students' understanding of vocabulary.

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Diane Schmitt began teaching English in Japan and currently lives and teaches in the United Kingdom. She is Academic Team Leader for EFL/TESOL at Nottingham Trent University, where she coordinates all English language instruction at the university. She also contributes to the master's program in English Language Teaching. Her research interests include issues related to the acquisition of English for academic purposes and second-language testing. She is a regular contributor to English teaching conferences. Norbert Schmitt began his EFL teaching career in Japan, where he taught all levels of students for six years. After completing his Ph.D., he began lecturing at the University of Nottingham, where he is currently Reader of Applied Linguistics and Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics. He is an active researcher in all aspects of second-language vocabulary studies and has published several books and numerous research papers in this area. He frequently presents at language-teaching conferences and consults on vocabulary learning and testing issues internationally.

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Unit 1   Our Changing Society

 

Chapter 1:  Technology and Society

            Reading: Human SocietiesFrom the Iceman to Us

 

Chapter 2:  Social Experience and Personal Development

            Reading: Social Forces That Shape Our Lives

            Reading: Emotions in Global Perspective: Do Well All Feel the Same?

 

Chapter 3:  The Changing Nature of the Family

            Reading: Family Structure

 

Chapter 4:  Strategy Practice

 

 

Unit 2   Consumer Behavior and Marketing

 

Chapter 5:  Influencing the Consumer

            Reading: Marketings Impact on Consumers

 

Chapter 6:  Who Buys What? The Familys Influence

            Reading: Consumer Socialization of Family Members

            Reading: Different Views on Purchasing Behavior

 

Chapter 7:  How We See Ourselves

            Reading: How Perspectives on the Self Influence Consumer Behavior

 

Chapter 8:  Strategy Practice

 

 

Unit 3   Workplaces and Work Spaces

 

Chapter 9:  How Office Space Affects Behavior

            Reading: Work Space Design

 

Chapter 10:  The Modern Office: Symbols of Status

            Reading: The Meaning of the Chair

            Reading: Office Designs That Work

 

Chapter 11:  Sitting Comfortably

            Reading: The Ergonomics of Sitting

 

Chapter 12:  Strategy Practice

 

 

Unit 4   Use and Abuse of Natural Resources

 

Chapter 13:  Water for Sale

            Reading

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