Batia Laufer

List of John Benjamins publications for which Batia Laufer plays a role.

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Subjects Language acquisition | Language teaching
The study investigates derivational knowledge of second language (L2) learners as a function of four variables: learner proficiency, word family frequency, derived word frequency, and affix type as suggested by two affix difficulty hierarchies. Seventy-nine EFL learners at two proficiency levels… read more
Laufer, Batia and Tami Levitzky-Aviad 2020 Loanword proportion in vocabulary size tests: Does it make a difference?Approaches to Learning, Testing and Researching L2 Vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.), pp. 95–115 | Chapter
We investigated the effect of English-Hebrew loanwords on English vocabulary test scores when the number of loanwords in the test is random and when it is representative of their proportion in the vocabulary lists from which the test items were taken. 303 EFL learners, speakers of Hebrew as L1,… read more
Laufer, Batia and Tami Levitzky-Aviad 2018 Loanword proportion in vocabulary size tests: Does it make a difference?Approaches to learning, testing, and researching L2 vocabulary, Webb, Stuart (ed.), pp. 95–114 | Article
We investigated the effect of English-Hebrew loanwords on English vocabulary test scores when the number of loanwords in the test is random and when it is representative of their proportion in the vocabulary lists from which the test items were taken. 303 EFL learners, speakers of Hebrew as L1,… read more
We investigate whether Russian immigrants in Israel with little or no knowledge of Hebrew (L2) experience attrition of Russian (L1). We compared immigrants with no knowledge of Hebrew (−Hebrew), immigrants who knew Hebrew (+Hebrew), and monolingual controls on correctness judgment of collocations… read more
Laufer, Batia 2005 Focus on Form in Second Language Vocabulary LearningEUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 5 (2005), Foster-Cohen, Susan H., María del Pilar García Mayo and Jasone Cenoz (eds.), pp. 223–250 | Article
The realization by applied linguists that second language learners cannot achieve high levels of grammatical competence from entirely meaning centered instruction has led them to propose that learners need to focus on form, i.e. to attend to linguistic elements during a communicative activity (Long… read more
Bogaards, Paul and Batia Laufer 2004 IntroductionVocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, acquisition, and testing, Bogaards, Paul and Batia Laufer (eds.), pp. vii–xiv | Miscellaneous
Laufer, Batia and I.S.P. Nation 2001 Passive vocabulary size and speed of meaning recognition: Are they related?EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 1 (2001), Foster-Cohen, Susan H. and Anna Nizegorodcew (eds.), pp. 7–28 | Article
This paper examines the relationship between fluency and vocabulary size, and also between fluency and word frequency level. Fluency was operationalised as the time learners need to recognize meanings of words sampled from different frequency levels. It was measured by a computerised vocabulary… read more
Laufer, Batia 1995 Beyond 2000: A measure of productive lexicon in a second languageThe Current State of Interlanguage: Studies in honor of William E. Rutherford, Eubank, Lynn, Larry Selinker and Michael Sharwood Smith (eds.), pp. 265–272 | Article
Laufer, Batia 1991 Words you know: how they affect the words you learnFurther Insights into Contrastive Analysis, Fisiak, Jacek (ed.), pp. 573–594 | Article