This book challenges prevailing linguistic presumptions concerning contextual lexical meaning by examining whether pedagogic intervention targeted at raising Chinese EFL learners' awareness of the pragmatic nature of contextual lexical meaning can enhance the learners' contextual lexical inferencing competence (CLIC). CLIC is crucial to the development of a learners' vocabulary, reading ability and autonomy in reading. Through an empirical study conducted among a group of adult Chinese students of English, the author shows that the power of CLIC instruction lies mainly in its effectiveness in enhancing learners' self-confidence in making lexical inferences. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of applied linguistics, TESOL, language education, and for language professionals keen to extend their research experience.
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Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2019 ed.
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Verlagsgruppe
Springer International Publishing
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14
14 s/w Abbildungen
XIX, 265 p. 14 illus.
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Höhe: 210 mm
Breite: 148 mm
Dicke: 16 mm
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ISBN-13
978-3-030-06499-0 (9783030064990)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-92716-9
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Gaiyan Wang is Professor at Xi'an International Studies University, China, and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the University of Hawai?i at Manoa, USA. Her research focuses on second language vocabulary acquisition, focusing on vocabulary acquisition in reading contexts and the cognitive mechanisms involved in lexical inferencing and incidental vocabulary acquisition.
