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

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 9
List of Figures......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Foreword......Page 14
1.1 What is this book about?......Page 20
1.2 The linguistic situation and educational setting in Denmark......Page 22
1.3 Focus of the study......Page 24
1.4 Informants......Page 25
1.5 Introspective methods......Page 28
1.6 Tasks......Page 29
1.7 The data collection procedure......Page 30
1.8 Theoretical framework and key constructs......Page 32
1.10 How this book is organized......Page 37
2.1 Zooming in on learners\' lexical competence......Page 41
2.2 Lexical competence – with a focus on network knowledge......Page 45
2.3 Different ways of investigating lexical network knowledge......Page 51
2.4 Investigating the learners\' network knowledge......Page 58
2.5 Looking at the informants\' vocabulary size......Page 76
2.6 Correlations between the lexical measures......Page 80
2.7 Concluding remarks......Page 81
3 Lexical Inferencing Procedures in Two Languages......Page 86
3.1 Situating the study within the field of lexical inferencing research......Page 87
3.2 The lexical inferencing study......Page 91
3.3 Results......Page 110
3.4 Discussion......Page 116
3.5 Perspectives on research design and teaching......Page 127
4 Writing in Two Languages......Page 131
4.1 Previous research......Page 133
4.2 Theoretical background......Page 136
4.3 The study......Page 139
4.4 A qualitative analysis of the verbalizations of three informants......Page 162
4.5 Discussion and implications......Page 172
5 Lexical Knowledge, Lexical Inferencing and Writing......Page 179
5.1 Bringing the three studies together......Page 180
5.2 Correlations across the studies......Page 182
5.3 Learner profiles......Page 191
5.4 Summary and discussion of main findings......Page 209
6.1 Research implications......Page 214
6.2 Perspectives on instruction......Page 217
A.1.2 Statistical details for Chapter 4......Page 222
A.2 Description of response types in the word association data......Page 225
A.3.1 Think-aloud instructions......Page 226
A.3.2 The L2 lexical inferencing task......Page 227
A.3.3 Description of the interscorer procedure for lexical inferencing......Page 228
A.4.1 Writing prompts......Page 229
A.4.3 Interscorer reliability for the analysis of the verbal protocols and for the assessment of the essays......Page 230
References......Page 232
K......Page 241
S......Page 242
W......Page 243