THE RAILWAY CHILDREN - READING THE NOVEL AND VOCABULARY IN ITŽibert, Špela (Avtor) Kennedy, Victor (Mentor) readingvocabularysecond language learnerslearningforeign language.In my diploma paper I write about reading the novel in a foreign language, that is English in this case, and acquiring vocabulary from it. The novel is The Railway Children written by Edith Nesbit. The paper is about reading as a process, reading as a skill, reading strategies and styles, reading techniques, problems and difficulties that learners have to deal with when reading. I also studied learning vocabulary and learning vocabulary from the novel. I mentioned anticipated problems and experience from my teaching practice. I chose this subject because I teach in a primary school where the learners in the ninth grade attend the English competition every year and this is the literary work they have to read for it. They have to deal with formal language, spoken language and direct speech which is written phonetically. There are also old-fashioned expressions and phrases that had to be interpreted. [Š. Žibert]20122012-04-26 15:23:29Diplomsko delo22839sl