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Publication details [#30544]

Hansen, Lynne, Yukako Umeda and Melanie McKinney. 2002. Savings in the Relearning of Second Language Vocabulary: The Effects of Time and Proficiency. Language Learning 52 (4) : 653–678.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

L2-acquisition | language change | lexical variability | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Japanese | Korean

Place, Publisher

Blackwell Publishers

ISBN

0023-8333

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/lang

Annotation

This paper discusses the application of the savings paradigm from cognitive psychology to vocabulary relearning, using second language data from returnees from Japan and Korea that provide evidence of very strong saving effects in lexical reactivation.