Brian Richards, Michael H. Daller, David D. Malvern, Paul Meara, James Milton And Jeanine Treffers-Daller: Vocabulary Studies In First And Second Language Acquisition

摘要

The importance of vocabulary to both language learning and to the study of language itself has become more widely recognized in recent years. Vocabulary Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition provides further evidence of this, with 12 papers investigating a wide variety of issues. These include the lexical nature of parental speech to pre-school children, vocabulary in LI schooling, the productive vocabulary of, variously, L2 learners, bilinguals and monolingual native speakers, teachers' explanations of vocabulary in the L2 classroom, vocabulary and academic success, and vocabulary size and L2 proficiency. What links these topics is the fact that all the papers 'have implications for educational practice and policy' (p. xiii).