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Lexical availability and writing ability of EFL learners
International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020AbstractStudies on lexical availability (LA) reveal a different dimension of vocabulary knowledge and development. Likewise, this study explores (a) the relationship between LA and writing ability of male and female learners and (b) differences and similarities between the tokens and types of the words they generated.
Is’haaq Akbarian, Javad Farrokhi
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, 2014
Studies of lexical availability have more than 50 years of history behind them. They were born in France during the first phase of the elaboration of Le Francais Elementaire, published in 1954. Concepts that up to that moment had been treated as synonyms -frequent vocabulary, basic vocabulary, and usual vocabulary- started to be defined as different ...
H. Morales
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Studies of lexical availability have more than 50 years of history behind them. They were born in France during the first phase of the elaboration of Le Francais Elementaire, published in 1954. Concepts that up to that moment had been treated as synonyms -frequent vocabulary, basic vocabulary, and usual vocabulary- started to be defined as different ...
H. Morales
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EFL learners’ lexical availability: Exploring frequency, exposure, and vocabulary level
System, 2020Abstract Lexical availability studies have a great potential to explore and contribute to a better understanding of productive vocabulary knowledge in a second or foreign language. The present study compared the lexical availability output of two groups of EFL learners in order to ascertain whether the different prompts used in the lexical ...
Is’haaq Akbarian +2 more
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Effect of Ambiguity and Lexical Availability on Syntactic and Lexical Production
Cognitive Psychology, 2000Speakers only sometimes include the that in sentence complement structures like The coach knew (that) you missed practice. Six experiments tested the predictions concerning optional word mention of two general approaches to language production. One approach claims that language production processes choose syntactic structures that ease the task of ...
V. Ferreira, G. Dell
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Cognitive aspects of lexical availability
European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2006Lexical availability measures the ease with which a word can be generated as a member of a given category. It has been developed by linguistic studies aimed, among other things, at devising a rational basis for selecting words for inclusion in dictionaries.
Natividad Hernández-Muñoz +2 more
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Slovene Students’ Lexical Availability in English and Spanish
, 2014This chapter explores the differences and similarities in lexical availability in two foreign languages, English and Spanish. The author compares eight semantic categories in a lexical availability task administered to Slovene students, learners of English and Spanish as foreign languages.
Marjana Šifrar Kalan
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Cognitive Factors of Lexical Availability in a Second Language
, 2014Previous research has shown that lexical availability is a complex property influenced by factors such as typicality, age of acquisition and concept familiarity (Hernandez Munoz N, Izura C, Ellis AW, Eur J Cogn Psychol 18:734–755, 2006). The influence of these factors might change in second languages (L2) due to variations in age of learning ...
Natividad Hernández Muñoz +2 more
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GIRLS' AND BOYS' LEXICAL AVAILABILITY IN EFL
ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2009AbstractIn the present study we report research conducted with female and male students who were learning English as EFL in the 6th grade of Spanish primary education (end of this educational stage). Our main objective was to ascertain whether there were differences or similarities regarding the number and the kind of words produced by male students ...
R. J. Catalán, Julieta Ojeda Alba
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Lexical availability and grammatical encoding scope during spoken sentence production
Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 2013Three sentence production experiments investigate the relationship between lexical and structural processing scope. Speakers generated sentences with varying phrase structures in response to visual displays (e.g., The dog and the hat move above the fork and the tree/The dog moves above the hat and the fork and the tree).
L. Wheeldon +3 more
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Concreteness and context availability in lexical decision tasks.
The American Journal of Psychology, 2006Abstract Three experiments were carried out to elucidate the origins of the concreteness (C) effect in a lexical decision task. The first experiment was a replication of the work of Schwanenflugel et al. (1988) and Van Hell and De Groot (1998), who presented the context availability (CA) hypothesis.
Shelly Levy-Drori, A. Henik
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