Lexical inferencing in a first and second language
Subtitle: cross-linguistic dimensions
By: Marjorie Bingham Wesche and T. Sima Paribakht.
Contributors: Paribakht, Tahereh, 1949-
Series: Second language acquisition -- 46
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Buffalo, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781847692238; 9781847692221; 9781847692245
Subjects: Vocabulary -- Study and teaching; Second language acquisition; Language and languages -- Study and teaching; Inference
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Foreword; title: List of tables and figures; title: Part I. Lexical inferencing: a research review: 1. Research on the lexical inferencing process and its outcomes; title: 2. Cross-linguistic issues in lexical inferencing; title: Part II. Trilingual study of lexical inferencing in a first and second language: 3. conceptualization and methodology; title: 4. L1 influences on knowledge source use in L2 lexical inferencing; title: 5. Inferencing success and initial development of word knowledge; title: 6. Trilingual study summary, discussion and implications; title: Appendices; title: Notes.