Most of the contributions that have been selected for this volume are papers that were presented at the Second-Language Vocabulary Acquisition Colloquium, which took place at Leiden University in March 2002, and which was organised under the auspices of the European Second Language Association (EUROSLA) by the editors of this book. This Colloquium was sponsored by the University of Haifa, the Universiteit Leiden Center for Linguistics (ULCL), the Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF), and the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
The eleven chapters of Vocabulary in a Second Language are written by the world's leading researchers in the field of vocabulary studies in second language acquisition. Each chapter presents experimental research leading to new conclusions about and insights into the selection, the learning and teaching, or the testing of vocabulary knowledge in foreign languages. This book is intended as an up-to-date overview of the important domain of the lexicon for researchers in the field of second language acquisition,teacher trainers and professional teachers of second or foreign languages.
Introduction
Paul Bogaards and Batia Laufer
Selection
CHAPTER 1
A study of the most frequent word families in the British National Corpus
Paul Nation
CHAPTER 2
IS there room for an academic word list in French?
Tom Cobb and Marlise Horst
CHAPTER 3
Vocabulary coverage according to spoken discourse context
Svenja Adolphs and Norbert Schmitt
Acquisition
CHAPTER 4
Etymological elaboration as a strategy for learning idioms
Frank Boers, Murielle Demecheleer, and June Eyckmans
CHAPTER 5
Receptive, productive, and receptive + productive L2 vocabulary
learning: what difference does it make?
Jan-Arjen Mondria and Boukje Wiersma
CHAPTER 6
Semantic transfer and development in adult L2 vocabulary acquisition
Nan Jiang
CHAPTER 7
Individual differences in the use of colloquial vocabulary:
The effects of sociobiographical and psychological factors
Jean-Marc Dewaele
CHAPTER 8
Second language lexical inferencing: Preferences, perceptions, and
practices
David.D. Qian
Testing
CHAPTER 9
The relation between lexical richness and vocabulary size in Dutch
L1 and L2 children
Anne Vermeer
CHAPTER 10
The construction and validation of a deep word knowledge test for
advanced learners of French
Tine Greidanus, Paul Bogaards, Elisabeth van der Linden,
Lydius Nienhuis, and Torn de Wolf
CHAPTER 11
Plumbing the depths: How should the construct of vocabulary
knowledge be defined?
John Read
List of contributors
Index