HOW TO TEACH VOCABULARY is for teachers at the beginning of their careers and for more experienced teachers. It is for those wanting to develop their skills and to find out more about recent developments, such as language corpora and lexical approaches to teaching. HOW TO TEACH VOCABULARY offers: -An explanation of the theory of words and their relationships. -A description of how words are learned. -Ideas on useful sources of vocabulary and on how these can be put to use in class. -Aproaches to presenting and consolidating vocabulary knowledge. -Ways of testing word knowledge. -Methods of increasing students' confidence with words. -A Task File of photocopiable review activities for each chapter, and an answer key.