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Expanding vocabulary

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or be confined by. from Possession A.S. Byatt (1990) The teaching of vocabulary is, I believe, undervalued by practically everyone. Myself included. Why should this be ? Do you recognise those thoughts? The effect of these ideas is depressing: the teaching of vocabulary is shuffled off to one side of 'serious' teaching. My...

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