Vocabulary and Applied Linguistics

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Multiword Lexical Units and Communicative Language Teaching....Pages 1-12
Textual Aspects of Fixed Expressions in Learners’ Dictionaries....Pages 13-27
Fixed Phrases in Monolingual Learners’ Dictionaries....Pages 28-40
Bilingual Dictionaries: Between Language and Speech....Pages 41-51
L1, L2, L3: Continuity vs. Discontinuity in Lexical Acquisition....Pages 52-61
Network Structures and Vocabulary Acquisition in a Foreign Language....Pages 62-70
Good Birds, Better Birds and Amazing Birds: The Development of Prototypes....Pages 71-84
L1 Influence on Learners’ Renderings of English Collocations: A Polish/German Empirical Study....Pages 85-93
Individual Differences in Vocabulary Acquisition: A Qualitative Experiment in the First Phase of Secondary Education....Pages 94-101
Learners’ Spontaneous Translations in an L2 Reading Comprehension Task: Vocabulary Knowledge and Use of Schemata....Pages 102-112
Retention of Inferred and Given Word Meanings: Experiments in Incidental Vocabulary Learning....Pages 113-125
How Much Lexis is Necessary for Reading Comprehension?....Pages 126-132
Objective Lexical and Grammatical Characteristics of L2 Written Compositions and the Validity of Separate-Component Tests....Pages 133-145
The Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition of Mono- and Bilingual Children and Teachers’ Evaluation Ability....Pages 146-155
The Role of Experience in a Content- and Comprehension-Oriented Approach to Learning a Foreign Language....Pages 156-166
Towards Classroom Concordancing....Pages 167-181
From Spelling to Sound: English Graphematics as an Aid to Vocabulary Acquisition....Pages 182-195
Back Matter....Pages 196-200