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Lexical Availability in English and Spanish as a Second Language

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Editors:
  1. Rosa María Jiménez Catalán

    1. Facultad de Letras y Educación Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain

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  • A timely volume on lexical availability in learners of English or Spanish as a second or third language
  • Integrates studies on lexical availability in two of the world's most widely spoken languages
  • Using original data from learners of English or Spanish in Chile, Great Britain, Poland, Slovenia, and Spain

Part of the book series: Educational Linguistics (EDUL, volume 17)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Lexical Availability Studies

    • Humberto López Morales
    Pages 1-11

  3. Lexical Availability in English as L1 and L2

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Lexical Availability of Basic and Advanced Semantic Categories in English L1 and English L2

      • Roberto A. Ferreira Campos
      Pages 15-35

    3. The Effect of Age on EFL Learners’ Lexical Availability: Word Responses to the Cue Words ‘Town’ and ‘Countryside’

      • Rosa María Jiménez Catalán, María del Pilar Agustín Llach, Almudena Fernández Fontecha, Andrés Canga Alonso
      Pages 37-51

    4. The Incidence of Previous Foreign Language Contact in a Lexical Availability Task: A Study of Senior Learners

      • Francisco Gallardo del Puerto, María Martínez Adrián
      Pages 53-68

    5. Lexical Variation in Learners’ Responses to Cue Words: The Effect of Gender

      • María del Pilar Agustín Llach, Almudena Fernández Fontecha
      Pages 69-81

    6. Frequency Profiles of EFL Learners’ Lexical Availability

      • Rosa María Jiménez Catalán, Tess Fitzpatrick
      Pages 83-100

  4. Lexical Availability in Spanish as L1 and L2

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. The Relationship of Language Proficiency to the Lexical Availability of Learners of Spanish

      • Marta Samper Hernández
      Pages 103-124

    3. Slovene Students’ Lexical Availability in English and Spanish

      • Marjana Šifrar Kalan
      Pages 125-138

    4. The Effect of Instruction on Polish Spanish Learners’ Lexical Availability

      • Antonio María López González
      Pages 139-168

    5. Cognitive Factors of Lexical Availability in a Second Language

      • Natividad Hernández Muñoz, Cristina Izura, Carmela Tomé
      Pages 169-186

  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-187
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    2. Researching Lexical Availability in L2: Some Methodological Issues

      • Marta Samper Hernández, Rosa María Jiménez Catalán
      Pages 189-205
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About this book

​ This volume contributes to the research in two different research areas: lexical availability studies and vocabulary research in second or foreign languages. Lexical availability is defined as the words that immediately come to mind as a response to a stimulus provided by topics related to domains closely connected to daily life: for instance animals, food and drink, daily activities, politics, or poverty. Lexical availability is a dimension of learners’ receptive and productive lexical competence, and, consequently, an important variable of learners’ communicative competence. Written by leading researchers in Spanish and English applied linguistics, the studies presented in this volume offer the reader findings and insights from studies conducted in learners with different mother tongues, who learn English or Spanish as their second or third language. “This book made me aware of an approach to vocabulary acquisition which has a long tradition in European research, but has been somewhat neglected by English-speaking researchers. The methodology was pioneered in France where it developed into the Francais Fondamental project - an influential approach to the vocabulary needs of learners of French. It was also taken up by Spanish researchers, and more recently developed by the team at La Rioja University. Where English-language research has focused on the frequency of words in large corpora and the implications of this feature for L2 vocabulary acquisition, the lexical availability tradition takes a much more learner-centred approach to L2 vocabulary skills, directly reflecting learners' needs and learners' ability to do things with small, effective vocabularies. This leads to a set of research priorities that look refreshingly different from the ones we are used to. Read this book. It might change the way you think about vocabulary research.” Paul Meara, Swansea University, Wales, UK

Reviews

“It focuses on lexical availability, a common concern of English and Spanish applied linguists nowadays. … a single volume or a collection of articles on lexical availability was not available in the market prior to the appearance of this volume. Therefore, this single volume would serve a newcomer to the field. … the book is not only recommended to Spanish and English FL teachers and researchers, but also to those researchers who know other under-investigated languages.” (Is’haaq Akbarian, IJES International Journal of English Studies, Vol. 15 (2), 2015) 

“The studies presented in this volume offer the reader findings and insights from studies conducted among learners with different mother tongues, who are learning English or Spanish as their second or third language in different countries … . the authors suggest some of the innovations that couldbe interesting for further studies and disciplines, such as psycholinguistics or vocabulary testing, from which the results of lexical availability investigations could be studied.” (Felipe Jiménez Berrio, Spanish in Context, Vol. 12 (1), 2015)

“This book compiles two different research areas: lexical availability studies, and vocabulary research in second or foreign languages. … it offers an excellent (English-language) resource for any researcher/ teacher wanting to know more about the lexical availability of his/her learners’ receptive and productive lexical competence. … I consider the volume a fascinating resource and one that offers immense potential in exploring lexical availability either in isolation or in combination with vocabulary tests.” (Jonathan Clenton, The Linguist List, February, 2014)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Facultad de Letras y Educación Departamento de Filologías Modernas, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, Spain

    Rosa María Jiménez Catalán

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Lexical Availability in English and Spanish as a Second Language

  • Editors: Rosa María Jiménez Catalán

  • Series Title: Educational Linguistics

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7158-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7157-4Published: 17 September 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0584-2Published: 27 August 2016

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7158-1Published: 06 September 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1572-0292

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1656

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 205

  • Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Literacy, Psycholinguistics

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