Title: Vocabulary in a second language : selection, acquisition, and testing /
Authors: Bogaards, Paul; Laufer-Dvorkin, Batia.
Publisher: John Benjamins Pub.,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Language and languages Study and teaching; Vocabulary Study and teaching; Second language acquisition.
Abstract: "The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world's leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition. Each chapter presents experimental research leading to new conclusions about the insights into the selection, the learning and teaching, or the testing of vocabulary knowledge in foreign languages. This book is intended as an up-to-date overview of the important domain of the lexicon for researchers in the field of second language acquisition, teacher trainers and professional teachers of second or foreign languages."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: CHAPTER 1 -- A study of the most frequent word families in the British National Corpus / Paul Nation -- CHAPTER 2 -- Is there room for an academic word list in French? / Tom Cobb and Marlise Horst -- CHAPTER 3 -- Vocabulary coverage according to spoken discourse context / Svenja Adolphs and Norbert Schmitt -- Acquisition -- CHAPTER 4 -- Etymological elaboration as a strategy for learning idioms / Frank Boers, Murielle Demecheleer, and June Eyckmans -- CHAPTER 5 -- Receptive, productive, and receptive + productive L2 vocabulary llearning: what difference does it make? / Jan-Arjen Mondria and Boukje Wiersma -- CHAPTER 6 -- Semantic transfer and development in adult L2 vocabulary acquisition / Nan Jiang -- CHAPTER 7 -- Individual differences in the use of colloquial vocabulary: The effects of sociobiographical and psychological factors / Jean-Marc Dewaele -- CHAPTER 8 -- Second language lexical inferencing: Preferences, perceptions, and practices / David. D. Qian -- Testing -- CHAPTER 9 -- The relation between lexical richness and vocabulary size in Dutch L1 and L2 children / Anne Vermeer -- CHAPTER 10 -- The construction and validation of a deep word knowledge test for advanced learners of French / Tine Greidanus, Paul Bogaards, Elisabeth van der Linden, Lydius Nienhuis, and Tom de Wolf -- CHAPTER 11 -- Plumbing the depths: How should the construct of vocabulary knowledge be defined? / John Read.