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Features

• Vocabulary words for each lesson are presented in the context of a story to stimulate student interest.
• Additional practice sets at the end of each chapter assist students who want extra help as well as those who are ready to tackle more difficult words.
• Words derived less obviously from combining forms are presented to help students build new words and to decipher unfamiliar ones.
• End-of-chapter analogies and exercises enable students to use chapter vocabulary to develop higher-order thinking skills.
• Lesson-opening "Stories in Context" passages introduce students to key vocabulary words found in that section.
• The end-of-chapter section, “Gaining Word Power on the Internet,” gives students practice working with the Internet.
• Many readings and exercises have been updated and revised to include issues that are relevant to college students such as sports, college life, jobs, and money matters.

New To This Edition

• Word lists, puzzles, and cartoons have been thoroughly updated to engage students and help them retain lessons from each chapter.
• Special-interest or high-frequency academic words are highlighted throughout the text to prepare students for their academic course areas.
• Older "Stories in Context" passages have been replaced  by newer, more meaningful readings.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Gaining Word Power.

The Importance of Vocabulary Growth

Organization of the Text

How Lessons are Presented

End of Chapter Activities

Cartoon Practices and Fun with Cartoons

Fun with Words

How Words are Presented

Special Notes

Extra Word Power

Understanding Analogies

Pronunciation Key

Understanding the Term Over-learning

Suggestions on How to Study Vocabulary

The Dictionary

I. VOCABULARY DERIVED PRIMARILY FROM CONTEXT CLUES.

2. Lessons 1-3 College Life.

3. Lessons 4-6 Jose’s Dilemma.

4. Lessons 7-9 Jose’s Dilemma Continues.

II. VOCABULARY DERIVED FROM COMBINING FORMS AND CONTEXT CLUES.

5. Lessons 10-12.

6. Lessons 13-15.

7. Lessons 16-18.

8. Lessons 19-21.

9. Lessons 22-24.

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Vocabulary Development  (Developmental English)

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• Gaining Word Power, 7/E
  Rubin
  ©2006  |  Longman  |  Paper; 384 pp  |  Out of Print
  ISBN-10: 0321273524  |  ISBN-13: 9780321273529
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  Gaining Word Power helps college students build and retain better vocabularies and become more effective strategic readers.

  Based on more than thirty years of the author's teaching experience, this comprehensive vocabulary book generates a basic college-level vocabulary quickly, effectively and pleasurably. It incorporates a number of proven vocabulary-building approaches that are grounded in sound learning theory. In each self-contained lesson, words are presented on graduated levels of difficulty, followed by challenging exercises and writing activities and reinforced by immediate access to solutions. This approach enables students to progress at their own pace and evaluate their progress.

  Although this text has a distinct pedagogical structure, a variety of practices, crossword puzzles, writing exercises, analogy activities and numerous cartoons throughout challenge students to learn using a variety of strategies while continuously emphasizing the reading-writing connection.

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