Vocabulary Resources



A Few Vocabulary Resources

Print Resources

August, D. & Shanahan, T. (2010). Effective English literacy instruction for English learners, In California Department of Education, Improving education for English learners: Research-based approaches. (pp. 209-240). Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education.

Baumann, J. F. & Kame’enui, E. J. (Eds) (2004). Vocabulary instruction: Research to practice.

New York: The Guilford Press.

Beck, I. L., McKeown, M. G., & Kucan, L. (2002). Bringing words to life: Robust vocabulary instruction. New York. Guilford Press.

Dutro, S., & Kinsella, K. (2010). English language development: Issues and implementation at

grades six through twelve. In California Department of Education, Improving education for

English learners: Research-based approaches. (pp. 151-207). Sacramento, CA: California

Department of Education.

Folse, K. (2004). Vocabulary myths: Applied second language research to classroom teaching. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.

Lawrence, J. F., White, C. & Snow, C. E. (2010). The words students need. Educational Leadership. 68(2), 23-26 Retrieved from

Lesaux, N., Kieffer, M., Faller, S. E. & Kelley, J. G. (2010). The effectiveness and ease of

implementation of an academic vocabulary intervention for linguistically diverse students in urban middle schools. Reading Research Quarterly, 45(12), 196-228.

Liu, D. (2003). The most frequently used spoken American English idioms: A corpus analysis and its implications. TESOL Quarterly, 37(4), 671-700.

Liu, D. (2011). The most frequently used phrasal verbs in American and British English: A multicorpus examination. TESOL Quarterly, 45(4), 661-688.

Marzano, R. (2004). Building background knowledge for academic achievement: Research on what works in schools, Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Excerpts available online at

Nation, I. S. P. (2001). Learning vocabulary in another language. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Unversity Press.

Nation, I. S. P. (2008). Teaching vocabulary: Strategies and techniques. Boston, MA: Heinle Cengage Learning.

Saunders, W. & Goldenberg, C. (2010). Research to guide English language development instruction. In California Department of Education, Improving education for English learners: Research-based approaches. (pp. 21-81). Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education.

Stahl, S. A. & Nagy, W. E. (2006). Teaching word meanings. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Web Resources

Averil Coxhead’s Academic Word List



Tom Cobb’s Vocabulary Profiler marks up texts according to the first 1,000 and second 1,000 most common English words (West, 1953) as well as Averil Coxhead’s Academic Word List. Website also includes vocabulary tests and study materials.



Flash Cards App for iPhone



Paul Nation’s webpage includes links and references to an exhaustive list of research studies on vocabulary



Paul Nation’s workshop on video



Paul Nation’s Learning vocabulary in another language: A test of teachers’ knowledge

Promoting Vocabulary Development Texas Reading Initiative

Quizlet for creating word cards with pictures and audio online



Jeff Zwiers website – useful collection of effective tools for teaching language



Online English Learners’ Dictionaries

Cambridge



Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English



Newbury Dictionary of American English



Oxford Collocations Dictionary



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