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Vocabulary Development\n\nMichelle Andersen Francis  \nMission College  \nMichele L.Simpson  \nUniversity of Georgia  \nAt the college level our goal is to increase the breadth of our students'vocabularies (i.e.,the number of words for which students have a definition),as well as the depth andprecision of their word knowledge.But the goal is much more than improving students'word knowledge.Recent federal reports (e.g.,RAND Reading Study Group,2002)haveindicated that vocabulary knowledge is one of the five essential components of reading.Given that most college students are expected to read content area textbooks packedwith concepts and technical vocabulary that they need to understand fully,if they areto learn,the relationship between vocabulary and comprehension becomes even moresignificant(Harmon,Hedrick,Wood,&Gress,2005;Rupley,2005).If too many gen-eral or technical words puzzle students,they will read in a halting manner,a behaviorthat compromises their reading fluency (Joshi,2005).Moreover,when the processingdemands for reading a textbook become elevated because of the vocabulary load,manystudents will have little,if any,cognitive energy left for thinking about key concepts ormonitoring their understanding(Scott &Nagy,2004).  \nIn sum,if college students are to succeed,they need an extensive vocabulary and avariety of strategies for understanding the words and language of an academic disci-pline.In order to assist their students,college reading professionals need to be aware ofresearch-validated and effective approaches and strategies for vocabulary development.This chapter,organized into four main sections,reviews the research and theory relatedto vocabulary development and offers practical teaching and programmatic guidelines.  \nIn the first section,we examine the issues related to vocabulary development andinstruction.Next,we highlight research studies that have investigated how best todevelop college students'vocabulary knowledge.In the third section,we outline sevenguidelines for effective vocabulary practices.We conclude with a section outliningfuture avenues.  \n## VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT AND INSTRUCTION\n\nPrior to developing an approach for enhancing students'word knowledge,college read-ing professionals should acknowledge the theoretical issues concerning vocabularydevelopment.Possibly the most important theoretical issue is what constitutes wordknowledge.Closely related to this first issue is the troublesome methodological issuethat considers how to measure word knowledge and vocabulary growth in our students.The third theoretical issue addresses the role of students as they attempt to acquirevocabulary knowledge.  \n98 Michelle Andersen Francis and Michele L.Simpson  \n### What does it mean to know a word?\n\nThe extant research on this question has been well documented and investigated overthe last 50 years(e.g.,Dale,1965;Stahl,1999),and it appears that such knowledgeexists in degrees or on a continuum.In his seminal piece,Dale suggested that wordknowledge follows four stages:(a)I've never seen the word;(b)I've heard of it,but don'tknow what it means;(c)I recognize it in context,it has something to do with..;and(d)I know the word in one or several of its meanings.  \nIn terms of commechoice and matching fknowledge(Brozo &noted by several resethere are several limit:of students'conceptu“flat,as if all words1991,p.796).Perhapchoice format is the ircially poorly construor permit students wla word.  \nDale's four stages are useful,but Stahl(1999)expanded upon the idea by suggest-ing that students should have “full and flexible knowledge”of that word.Stahl definesfulland flexible knowledge of a word as knowledge that“involves an understandingof the core meaning of a word and how it changes in different contexts”(p.25).Thisdefinition comes from his previous studies on contextual word knowledge(Stahl,1986),which is described as the ability of students to understand that the concept of a 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