Teaching and the Learning Vocabulary

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. The fear of white lab coats: classical conditioning. 2. A learned heart attack? The problem of extinction. 3. The World Fair\'s Nails: learning by trial and error? 4. An untidy child learns to be neat: signals for new habits. 5. Operant conditioning and sociocognitive learning. 6. How Rita unlearns to like to draw: on reinforcements and rewards. 7. Waiting and doing without: learning to control one\'s own impulses and behavior. 8. Learning prosocial behavior. 9. More than just desensitization. 10. Cognitive behavior training and the development of action-regulating cognitions. 11. Learned helplessness in a secondary-school pupil. 12. Learning to juggle. 13. The construction of mental models. 14. Learning vocabulary: self-regulated, adaptive learning. 15. Learning to count: constructing numeric networks Piaget\'s genetic epistemology approach-- and beyond. 16. Visual learning in geometry? The conceptual and figural components of learning. 17. A Taxi Driver\'s geographical knowledge of a town: the construction of "Cognitive Maps". 18. Playing with matches: the Gestalt theory, or insightful learning. 19. Learning to play chess: the construction of complex operational and goal systems. Index.

"Language is composed of words and sentences. If a student has the acquisition of more and more words and vocabulary, his language becomes very rich and effective. The teachers of language and linguistic should know as to which words and vocabulary are important and essential for the classes the teacher is going to teach.

The editor is grateful to various departments of language and linguistics of many universities to whom he had approached for participation and assistance in the project of vocabulary building.

It is hoped the book will be found of immense value to teachers, researchers, educational administrators and the general public alike." (jacket)