LINGUIST List 15.2233

Thu Aug 5 2004

Books: Language Acquisition: Bogaards et al

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    Message 1: Vocabulary in a Second Language: Bogaards, Laufer (Eds)

     Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 14:00:46 -0400 (EDT)
    From: paul <paulbenjamins.com>
    Subject: Vocabulary in a Second Language: Bogaards, Laufer (Eds)




    Title: Vocabulary in a Second Language Subtitle: Selection, acquisition, and testing Series Title: Language Learning & Language Teaching 10

    Publication Year: 2004 Publisher: John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ http://www.benjamins.nl/

    Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=LL%26LT%2010

    Editor: Paul Bogaards, Leiden University Editor: Batia Laufer, University of Haifa

    Paperback: ISBN: 9027217106, Pages: xiv, 234 pp., Price: EURO 36.00

    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 and 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.

    Table of contents

    Introduction Paul Bogaards and Batia Laufer vii--xiv Selection 1. A study of the most frequent word families in the British National Corpus Paul Nation 3--13 2. Is there room for an academic word list in French? Tom Cobb and Marlise Horst 15--38 3. Vocabulary coverage according to spoken discourse context Svenja Adolphs and Norbert Schmitt 39--49 Acquisition 4. Etymological elaboration as a strategy for learning idioms Frank Boers, Murielle Demecheleer and June Eyckmans 53--78 5. Receptive, productive, and receptive + productive L2 vocabulary learning: what difference does it make? Jan-Arjen Mondria and Boukje Wiersma 79--100 6. Semantic transfer and development in adult L2 vocabulary acquisition Nan Jiang 101--126 7. Individual differences in the use of colloquial vocabulary: The effects of sociobiographical and psychological factors Jean-Marc Dewaele 127--153 8. Second language lexical inferencing: preferences, perceptions, and practices David D. Qian 155--169 Testing 9. The Relation between lexical richness and vocabulary size in Dutch L1 and L2 children Anne Vermeer 173--189 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 191--208 11. Plumbing the depths: How should the construct of vocabulary knowledge be defined?

    John Read 209--227 Index List of Contributors

    Lingfield(s): Language Acquisition Written In: English (Language Code: ENG)

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