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  1. What is 'semantic prosody'?

    Answer: The consistent positive or negative associations a word acquires through its typical collocates

    Semantic prosody refers to the attitudinal or evaluative coloring a word takes on from the company it typically keeps, e.g., 'cause' often collocates with unpleasant events.

  2. Which vocabulary teaching approach uses a 'word wall' in the classroom?

    Answer: Communicative approach with environmental print

    Word walls display key vocabulary prominently in the classroom environment, supporting communicative approaches by providing constant visual reference for learners.

  3. What is the Academic Word List (AWL) designed to do?

    Answer: Identify vocabulary common across academic disciplines not covered by basic word lists

    Coxhead's AWL (2000) contains 570 word families that appear frequently across a range of academic subject areas and are not already in the most common 2,000 words.

  4. What is 'circumlocution' as a vocabulary communication strategy?

    Answer: Describing or talking around a word the speaker doesn't know

    Circumlocution is a communication strategy where a speaker describes the concept or function of an unknown word rather than using the word itself.

  5. What does 'derivational morphology' involve in vocabulary instruction?

    Answer: Teaching how prefixes and suffixes change a word's meaning or grammatical class

    Derivational morphology focuses on affixes that alter a word's meaning or part of speech, such as adding '-tion' to 'communicate' to form the noun 'communication.'

  6. What is the term for words that are opposite in meaning?

    Answer: Antonyms

    Antonyms are words with opposite meanings, such as 'hot/cold' or 'expand/contract,' and teaching them together can reinforce understanding of both words.

  7. What is a 'hypernym' (superordinate) in vocabulary taxonomy?

    Answer: A general word whose meaning includes more specific words (hyponyms)

    A hypernym is a broader category word (e.g., 'vehicle') that encompasses more specific hyponyms (e.g., 'car,' 'bus,' 'truck').