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Eleven Pets and 20 Ways to Express One's Opinion: The Vocabulary Learners of German Acquire at English Secondary Schools
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Hacker, Martina – Language Learning Journal, 2008
This article investigates the vocabulary of textbooks and relates it to education policy, assessment methods and teaching methods. It considers the range of vocabulary covered by key stages 3 and 4 German foreign language textbooks for secondary schools from the beginning of the 1990s to 2006 and shows that there is an overall decrease in the…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Textbooks, Semantics, Second Language Learning