Connected Words
Word associations and second language vocabulary acquisition
What words come into your head when you think of SUN? For native English speakers, the most common responses are MOON, SHINE and HOT, and about half of all native speaker responses to SUN are covered by these three words. L2 English speakers are much less obliging, and produce patterns of association that are markedly different from those produced by native speakers. Why? What does this tell us about the way L2 speakers' vocabularies grow and develop? This volume provides a user-friendly introduction to a research technique which has the potential to answer some long-standing puzzles about L2 vocabulary. The method is easy to use, even for inexperienced researchers, but it produces immensely rich data, which can be analysed on many different levels. The book explores how word association data can be used to probe the development of vocabulary depth, productive vocabulary skills and lexical organisation in L2 speakers.
[Language Learning & Language Teaching, 24] 2009. xvii, 174 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | pp. i–xviii
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Section 1. Early work
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Chapter 1. Learners’ word associations in French | pp. 5–20
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Chapter 2. Word associations in a foreign language | pp. 21–28
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Section 2. Associations as productive vocabulary
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Chapter 3. Lex30: An improved method of assessing productive vocabulary in an L2 | pp. 33–44
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Chapter 4. Exploring the validity of a test of productive vocabulary | pp. 45–58
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Section 3. Word association networks
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Chapter 5. Network structures and vocabulary acquisition in a foreign language | pp. 65–72
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Chapter 6. V_Links: Beyond vocabulary depth | pp. 73–84
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Chapter 7. A further note on simulating word association behaviour in an L2 | pp. 85–96
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Section 4. Bibliographical resources for word associations in an L2
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Chapter 8. Word associations in a second language: An annotated bibliography | pp. 101–128
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Section 5. Software applications
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Chapter 9. The Lex30 v3.00 manual | pp. 131–146
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Chapter 10. The V_Six v1.00 manual | pp. 147–158
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Chapter 11. WA_Sorter: The manual | pp. 159–164
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References | pp. 165–170
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Index | pp. 171–174
“Paul Meara is the world's leading researcher in modelling vocabulary knowledge and his work has been essential in guiding research and as a check on the findings of other research approaches. This book will be required reading for researchers and students of second language vocabulary acquisition.”
Paul Nation, Victoria University of Welling, New Zealand
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Connected Words: Word Associations and Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition should be read by researchers in the field of second language vocabulary acquisition, persons interested in word associations, and more generally, by anyone who would like to see how an original thinker has approached solving complex linguistic problems. Whether you agree with Meara’s approaches to the fundamental issues he has investigated over his 30-year career or not, you will likely find it difficult not to learn something—and perhaps a great many things—from this historical account of the research path followed by one of the most influential researchers in the field of SLVA. This is an important book that should be read by anyone interested in the second-language lexicon.”
David Belgar, Temple University, Japanese Campus, in JALT 33(1): 77-79, 2011
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