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Publication details [#55505]

Hellman, Andrea B. 2011. Vocabulary size and depth of word knowledge in adult-onset second language acquisition. International Journal of Applied Linguistics 21 (2) : 162–182.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adult | lexicon | second language acquisition | vocabulary growth | word, L2-acquisition of

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study demonstrates that acquisition of native level vocabulary size is curiously high among successful adult-onset English as a second language learners. The lexicon might thus constitute the potentially most successful domain of adult-onset L2 acquisition.