Researching vocabulary : a vocabulary reasearch manual /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2010.
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| Series: | Research and practice in applied linguistic
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1 Overview of Vocabulary Issues
- Vocabulary Use and Acquisition
- Ten key issues
- Vocabulary and reading
- A sample of prominent knowledge gaps in the field of vocabulary studies
- Part 2 Foundations of Vocabulary Research
- Issues of Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
- Form-meaning relationships
- Meaning
- Intrinsic difficulty
- Network connections (associations)
- Frequency
- L1 influence on vocabulary learning
- Describing different types of vocabulary
- Receptive and productive mastery
- Vocabulary learning strategies/self-regulating behavior
- Computer simulations of vocabulary
- Psycholinguistic/neurolinguistic research
- Formulaic Language
- Identification
- Strength of association
- hypothesis tests
- Strength of association
- mutual information
- A directional measure of collocation
- Formulaic language with open slots
- Processing formulaic language
- Acquisition of formulaic language
- The psycholinguistic reality of corpus-extracted formulaic sequences
- Nonnative use of formulaic language
- Part 3 Researching Vocabulary
- Issues in Research Methodology
- Qualitative research
- Participants
- The need for multiple measures of vocabulary
- The need for longitudinal studies and delayed posttests
- Selection of target lexical items
- Sample size of lexical items
- Interpreting and reporting results
- Measuring Vocabulary
- Global measurement issues
- Measuring vocabulary size
- Measuring the quality (depth) of vocabulary knowledge
- Measuring automaticity/speed of processing
- Measuring organization
- Measuring attrition and degrees of residual lexical retention
- Example Research Projects
- Part 4 Resources
- Vocabulary resources
- Instruments
- Corpora
- Concordancers/tools
- Vocabulary lists
- Websites
- Bibliographies
- Important personalities in the field of vocabulary studies.