1. A study of the most frequent word families in the British National Corpus

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Selection
5. 1. A study of the most frequent word families in the British National Corpus 3
6. 2. Is there room for an academic word list in French? 15
7. 3. Vocabulary coverage according to spoken discourse context 39
8. Acquisition
9. 4. Etymological elaboration as a strategy for learning idioms 53
10. 5. Receptive, productive, and receptive + productive L2 vocabulary learning: what difference does it make? 79
11. 6. Semantic transfer and development in adult L2 vocabulary acquisition 101
12. 7. Individual differences in the use of colloquial vocabulary: The effects of sociobiographical and psychological factors 127
13. 8. Second language lexical inferencing: preferences, perceptions, and practices 155
14. Testing
15. 9. The Relation between lexical richness and vocabulary size in Dutch L1 and L2 children 173
16. 10. The construction and validation of a deep word knowledge test for advanced learners of French 191
17. 11. Plumbing the depths: How should the construct of vocabulary knowledge be defined? 209
18. List of Contributors 229
19. Index 231