TY - BOOK ID - 78139563 TI - Teaching and learning vocabulary AU - Hiebert, Elfrieda H AU - Kamil, Michael L PY - 2005 SN - 1135605459 1282325272 9786612325274 1410612929 9781410612922 0805852859 9780805852851 0805852867 9780805852868 9781135605452 9781135605407 1135605408 9781135605445 1135605440 PB - Mahwah, N.J. L. Erlbaum Associates DB - UniCat KW - Vocabulary KW - Language arts. KW - Communication arts KW - Language arts KW - Communication KW - Study and teaching. KW - Study and teaching KW - Diction KW - Lexicology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78139563 AB - Although proficiency in vocabulary has long been recognized as basic to reading proficiency, there has been a paucity of research on vocabulary teaching and learning over the last two decades. Recognizing this, the U.S. Department of Education recently sponsored a Focus on Vocabulary conference that attracted the best-known and most active researchers in the vocabulary field. This book is the outgrowth of that conference. It presents scientific evidence from leading research programs that address persistent issues regarding the role of vocabulary in text comprehension. Part I examines how voca ER -