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  • Lexical availability and L2 vocabulary acquisition [Elektronski vir]
    Šifrar Kalan, Marjana
    Vocabulary research has followed a different path in English and in Spanish applied linguistics. Spanish applied linguistics has paid more attention to available lexicons of speakers than to word ... frequency. The measure of lexical availability combines the frequency at which a word is produced as a member of a semantic category (e.g. dog in category Animals) and the position in the list of associations provided by a group of individuals. It focuses on the words retrieved by speakers in response prompts (word stimulus) related to daily situations. This paper intends to present some of the aspects of lexical availability research which are interesting for L2 vocabulary acquisition. It attempts to show the potential of lexical availability research as an alternate approach for vocabulary planning (the use of L1 lexical availability measures to select the teaching vocabulary for L2) as well as the study of some psycholinguistic aspects of vocabulary acquisition, such as the organization of learners' mental lexicons, the similarities and the differences between response patterns, the kind of semantic associations that learners activate in response to prompts (semantic categories), the consideration of the most available words obtained by lexical availability research as semantic prototypes. Likewise, the study of learners' lexical availability can uncover sociolinguistic and cultural issues. Furthermore this paper wishes to inspire language researchers other than Spanish to apply this methodology to different languages.
    Vir: Linguistics, culture and identity in foreign language education [Elektronski vir] (Str. 1250-1256)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci ; neleposlovje za odrasle
    Leto - 2014
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 54551138

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