Michael Harrington

Lexical Facility (eBook, PDF)

Size, Recognition Speed and Consistency as Dimensions of Second Language Vocabulary Knowledge

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Coins the term lexical facility to analyse second language performer differences

Establishes a consistent framework to measure size and retrieval speed of vocabulary

Creates a new method of analysis to measure second language performance

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Seitenzahl: 305
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137372628
• Artikelnr.: 52938949

Autorenporträt

Michael Harrington teaches in the postgraduate program in Applied Linguistics at the University of Queensland, Australia. He publishes in second language acquisition, second language lexical and cognitive processes, and testing and assessment.

Inhaltsangabe

- Chapter 1. Size as a dimension of L2 Vocabulary Skill.- Chapter 2. Measuring Recognition Vocabulary Size.- Chapter 3. Word recognition skill as an aspect of L2 vocabulary knowledge.- Chapter 4. Lexical Facility: Bringing size and speed together.- Chapter 5. Measuring lexical facility.- Chapter 6. Lexical Facility as an index of L2 Proficiency.- Chapter 7. Lexical Facility and Academic English Proficiency.- Chapter 8. Lexical Facility and IELTS performance.- Chapter 9. Lexical Facility and Language Program Placement.- Chapter 10. Lexical Facility and academic performance in English.- Chapter 11. The effect of Lexical Facility.- Chapter 12. The future of Lexical Facility

Rezensionen

"For those who show keen interest in assessing vocabulary, Lexical Facility is like a groundbreaking guide. ... this innovative book, insightful for English as a second language (ESL) vocabulary instructors and researchers, will constitute an inspiring contribution to L2 lexical studies and deserves unbendable recommendation." (Liang Zhao, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, September 20, 2019)