Katalin Doró

Role of lexical knowledge and its testing in an L2 academic context

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a guide to some aspects of lexical knowledge, with focus on an academic context. Carrying out academic studies in a second or foreign language requires high target language proficiency, knowledge of the given field, good literacy and study skills. A key aspect of all these is lexical knowledge and use. After a descriptive overview of vocabulary-related issues, the second part of the book presents a set of vocabulary testing case studies carried out among undergraduate students of English. As a final point, the book examines some applications of the accumulated knowledge: testing vocabulary as a diagnostic tool, predicting academic achievement on the basis of vocabulary tested at the entry point to the university, monitoring vocabulary gains, vocabulary learning strategies, and, finally, assessing the vocabulary use in students texts. The literature review and the methodologies used in the case studies are selective in nature and serve as a guideline for future research. The findings and the discussions are, however, relevant not only to a Central European higher education context, but to any other one in which students are expected to do work mainly in an L2.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 128
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 209g
• ISBN-13: 9783659440694
• ISBN-10: 3659440698
• Artikelnr.: 39278079

Autorenporträt

Senior assistant professor at the University of Szeged, Hungary. She holds a PhD in English applied linguistics with focus on L2 vocabulary studies. Her research interests include first- and second language acquisition, the lexical choices of learners, language learning strategies, language users with special needs and psycholinguistics.