Vocabulary and Writing in a First and Second Language Processes and Development

by Albrechtsen, Dorte; Haastrup, Kirsten; Henriksen, Birgit

• ISBN13: 9781403939661
• ISBN10: 1403939667
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book presents a cross-sectional study investigating a group of learners of English with respect to their declarative lexical knowledge and their processes in lexical inferencing and writing in both a first and second language.

Author Biography

DORTE ALBRECHTSEN is Associate Professor in English at the University of Copenhagen. KIRSTEN HAASTRUP is Research Professor in Foreign Language Ecuation at Copenhagen Business School. BIRGIT HENRIKSEN is Associate Professor in English Language at the University of Copenhagen.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. viii
List of Figures	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
What is this book about?	p. 1
The linguistic situation and educational setting in Denmark	p. 3
Focus of the study	p. 5
Informants	p. 6
Introspective methods	p. 9
Tasks	p. 10
The data collection procedure	p. 11
Theoretical framework and key constructs	p. 13
Research questions	p. 18
How this book is organized	p. 18
Declarative Lexical Knowledge	p. 22
Zooming in on learners' lexical competence	p. 22
Lexical competence - with a focus on network knowledge	p. 26
Different ways of investigating lexical network knowledge	p. 32
Investigating the learners' network knowledge	p. 39
Looking at the informants' vocabulary size	p. 57
Correlations between the lexical measures	p. 61
Concluding remarks	p. 62
Lexical Inferencing Procedures in Two Languages	p. 67
Situating the study within the field of lexical inferencing research	p. 68
The lexical inferencing study	p. 72
Results	p. 91
Discussion	p. 97
Perspectives on research design and teaching	p. 108
Writing in Two Languages	p. 112
Previous research	p. 114
Theoretical background	p. 117
The study	p. 120
A qualitative analysis of the verbalizations of three informants	p. 143
Discussion and implications	p. 153
Lexical Knowledge, Lexical Inferencing and Writing	p. 160
Bringing the three studies together	p. 161
Correlations across the studies	p. 163
Learner profiles	p. 172
Summary and discussion of main findings	p. 190
Implications for Research and Instruction	p. 195
Research implications	p. 195
Perspectives on instruction	p. 198
Appendices	p. 203
Statistics	p. 203
Description of the statistical procedures	p. 203
Statistical details for Chapter 4	p. 203
Description of response types in the word association data	p. 206
Lexical inferencing	p. 207
Think-aloud instructions	p. 207
The L2 lexical inferencing task	p. 208
Description of the interscorer procedure for lexical inferencing	p. 209
Writing	p. 210
Writing prompts	p. 210
Transcription conventions for verbal protocols in the writing study	p. 211
Interscorer reliability for the analysis of the verbal protocols and for the assessment of the essays	p. 211
References	p. 213
Index	p. 222
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