Connected Words
Word associations and second language vocabulary acquisition
1st Edition
Published on 25. August 2009
XVII, 174 pages
978-90-272-8907-0 (ISBN)
Description
What words come into your head when you think of SUN? For native English speakers, the most common responses are MOON, SHINE and HOT, and about half of all native speaker responses to SUN are covered by these three words. L2 English speakers are much less obliging, and produce patterns of association that are markedly different from those produced by native speakers. Why? What does this tell us about the way L2 speakers' vocabularies grow and develop? This volume provides a user-friendly introduction to a research technique which has the potential to answer some long-standing puzzles about L2 vocabulary. The method is easy to use, even for inexperienced researchers, but it produces immensely rich data, which can be analysed on many different levels. The book explores how word association data can be used to probe the development of vocabulary depth, productive vocabulary skills and lexical organisation in L2 speakers.
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Content
- Connected Words
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Early work
- Learners' word associations in French
- Introduction
- The study
- Discussion
- Word associations in a foreign language
- Conclusion
- Associations as productive vocabulary
- Introduction
- Lex30
- Introduction
- Lex30
- The test format
- Subjects
- Method
- Scoring
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Appendix A
- Appendix B
- Exploring the validity of a test of productive vocabulary
- Introduction
- Reliability study
- Validity study 1. Native speaker norms
- Validation study 2. Collateral tests
- Discussion
- Word association networks
- Introduction
- Network structures and vocabulary acquisition in a foreign language
- Conclusions
- V_Links
- An alternative to breadth and depth
- V_Links
- Does V_Links work?
- Further work with V_Links
- Conclusion
- A further note on simulating word association behaviour in an L2
- Introduction
- Rethinking the simulator
- Results
- Discussion
- Conclusion
- Bibliographical resources for word associations in an L2
- Introduction
- Word associations in a second language
- Software applications
- Lex30 v3.00 The manual
- Introduction
- Changes from earlier versions
- Installing Lex30. v3.00
- Using Lex30. v3.00
- Interpreting the Lex30. scores
- Exiting Lex30
- Notes for researchers
- Waiver
- The JACET LISTS
- V_Six v1.00 The manual
- Introduction
- Changes from earlier versions of V_Links
- Installing and using V_Six
- Notes for researchers
- Feedback and suggestions
- The approved association list
- Instruction for test takers:
- WA_Sorter
- Introduction
- WA_Sorter
- Data preparation
- Data processing
- Common errors
- Feedback and suggestions
- Waiver
- References
- Index
- The series Language Learning & Language Teaching
