Time for words

Studies in Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition
Herausgegeben:Arabski, Janusz

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains a selection of papers on different aspects of foreign vocabulary learning and acquisition. It presents various theoretical issues concerning the language learning process itself and describes its nature. The last section of the volume deals with vocabulary learning strategies considered as procedures applied by learners themselves.

Produktdetails

• Crossroads and Interfaces: Studies in Linguistics and Literature 6
• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 39799
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 15mm x 148mm x 210mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9783631397992
• ISBN-10: 3631397992
• Artikelnr.: 26716629

Autorenporträt

The Editor: Janusz Arabski graduated from UCLA and received his M.A. from the University of Warsaw. He took his Ph.D. at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. He is a professor of English and Chairman of the English Language Institute at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland. He has published a number of books and articles in the areas of applied linguistics, foreign language learning, psycho-linguistics, contrastive studies and lexicography. Over the years he has organized many international conferences on foreign language acquisition and learning. Prof. Arabski has lectured and taught at many universities in Europe and America.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Hans Dechert: Binomials, memes and the evolution of culture - Danuta Gabrys: A universal or unique and amorphous feeling of ANGER: on conceptualising emotions and language awareness - Ewa Jakubowska: How to talk about the self-image in a second language - Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk: Cognitive grammar, language acquisition, and foreign language teaching - Liliana Piasecka: Sensitivity to fixed expressions and idioms - an aspect of lexical competence - Jan Rusiecki: Friends true and false: or a contrastive approach to the lexicon - Rüdiger Zimmermann: Advanced foreign language vocabulary - a closer look at word-formation and idiom - Farida Abderrahim: Is vocabulary acquired or learned? - Anna Baczkowska: Teaching synonyms; a corpus-based approach - Brian Farrington: Interactive, My eye! A criticism of current language learning software - Anna Gnoinska: The quality of exposure to language material and FL vocabulary acquisition - Justyna Lesniewska: Multi-word items in vocabulary acquisition - Moira Linnarud: Maybe you are playing basket in your speertime - teacher response to learners' writing in English - Andrzej Lyda: Disjuncts and conjuncts in discourse management - Jan Majer: This is better than that? On reference patterns in teacher trainees' English - June Miliander: Lexis in spoken and written learner English by advanced Swedish students - David Singleton: Atomistic and incidental approaches to vocabulary learning - Maria Wysocka: On the learning and use of foreign vocabulary in advanced learners of English - Janusz Arabski: Learning strategies of L1, L2 and L3 lexis - Joanna Bielska: On the relationship between language learning strategy use and vocabulary learning outcomes - Alina Chodkiewicz: Vocabulary acquisition while reading in EFL: learner strategies - Tammy Gregersen/Miguel Farias: Training in memory strategies: simplifying vocabulary development - Elzbieta Krawczyk-Neifar: Foreign language vocabulary learning strategies and the proficiency and age factors - Anna Michonska-Stadnik: A twenty-item vocabulary list for teachers - Anna Nizegorodcew: Initial stages in L2 lexical acquisition.