This book focuses on theory, research, and practice related to lexical input processing (lex-IP), an exciting field exploring how learners allocate their limited processing resources when exposed to words and lexical phrases in the input. Unit 1 specifies parameters of lex-IP research among other levels of input processing as well as key components (form, meaning, mapping) and contexts (incidental/intentional) of vocabulary learning. Unit 2 highlights theoretical advances, such as the type of processing - resource allocation (TOPRA) model, consistent with research on tasks (sentence writing, word copying, word retrieval) that learners may perform during vocabulary learning. Unit 3 highlights patterns in partial word form learning and input-based effects, including the value of increased exposure, drawbacks of presenting vocabulary in semantic sets, and advantages of input enhancement, particularly with regard to increasing talker, speaking-style, and speaking-rate variability in spoken input. The book unifies a range of research pertinent to lex-IP, summarizes theoretical and instructional implications, and proposes intriguing new directions for future research.
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Lexical Input Processing and Vocabulary Learning is informative and benefits from a readable style of writing, clear organization and classification of content as a whole and in each chapter, smooth and easy reading, and clear presentation of ideas to the SLA researchers, students, and instructors interested in lex-IP for whom it is intended. -- Is'haaq Akbarian, University of Qom, Iran, in Applied Linguistics 2016
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1. Acknowledgments; 2. Chapter 1. Introduction; 3. Understanding lex-ip; 4. Chapter 2. Multiple Levels of Input Processing and Language Learning; 5. Chapter 3. Three Key Components of Learning a Word: Form, Meaning, Mapping; 6. Chapter 4. Contexts of Lexical Input Processing: L1/L2 and Incidental/Intentional; 7. Task-based effects; 8. Chapter 5. Specificity in Type of Processing and Learning: The TOPRA Model; 9. Chapter 6. Effects of Tasks Involving Semantic and Structural Elaboration; 10. Chapter 7. Effects of Output with and without Access to Meaning; 11. Chapter 8. Effects of Opportunities for Target Word Retrieval; 12. Input-based effects; 13. Chapter 9. Privileging and Patterns in Partial Word Form Learning; 14. Chapter 10. Effects of Increased and Spaced Exposure; 15. Chapter 11. Effects of Semantic versus Thematic Sets; 16. Chapter 12. Effects of Input Enhancement; 17. Chapter 13. Effects of Acoustically Varied Input; 18. Conclusions and future research; 19. Chapter 14. Summary of Theoretical and Instructional Implications; 20. Chapter 15. Directions for Future Research; 21. References; 22. Appendix A; 23. Appendix B; 24. Index
