Vocabulary Studies in First and Second Language Acquisition

1. Front Matter

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2. Lexical Features of Parental Academic Language Input: the Effect on Vocabulary Growth in Monolingual Dutch Children

   • Lotte Henrichs, Rob Schoonen

   Pages 1-22

3. Vocabulary, Reading and Classroom Supports for Language

   • David K. Dickinson, Tanya R. Flushman, Jill B. Freiberg

   Pages 23-38

4. Exploring Vocabulary with Young L1 Learners: the Contribution of a Corpus

   • Alison Sealey

   Pages 39-58

5. Vocabulary, Education and Diversity

   • Viv Edwards

   Pages 59-73

6. Language Dominance and Lexical Diversity: How Bilinguals and L2 Learners Differ in their Knowledge and Use of French Lexical and Functional Items

   • Jeanine Treffers-Daller

   Pages 74-90

7. Lexical Diversity and Native-Like Selection: the Bonus of Studying Abroad

   • Pauline Foster

   Pages 91-106

8. Lexical Performance by Native and Non-Native Speakers on Language-Learning Tasks

   • Peter Skehan

   Pages 107-124

9. Can Differential Processing of L2 Vocabulary Inform the Debate on Teacher Code-Switching Behaviour? The Case of Chinese Learners of English

   • Ernesto Macaro, Tao Guo, Huili Chen, Lili Tian

   Pages 125-146

10. Lexical Development in Instructed L2 Learners of French: Is there a Relationship with Morphosyntactic Development?

    • Annabelle David, Florence Myles, Vivienne Rogers, Sarah Rule

    Pages 147-163

11. A New Method of Measuring Rare Word Diversity: the Example of L2 Learners of French

    • David Malvern, Brian Richards

    Pages 164-178

12. Vocabulary Knowledge and Academic Success: a Study of Chinese Students in UK Higher Education

    • Michael H. Daller, Huijuan Xue

    Pages 179-193

13. Vocabulary Size and the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages

    • James Milton, Thomaï Alexiou

    Pages 194-211

14. Back Matter

    Pages 212-248

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International scholars and researchers present cutting edge contributions on the significance of vocabulary in current thinking on first and second language acquisition in the school and at home. By pursuing common themes across first and second language and bilingual contexts, the editors offer a collection that tackles the most important issues.

• bilingual
• English
• first language
• French
• language
• language acquisition
• monolingual
• second language
• Second language acquisition
• SLA

• University of Reading, UK

  Brian Richards, David D. Malvern

• University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

  Michael H. Daller, Jeanine Treffers-Daller

• Swansea University, UK

  Paul Meara, James Milton

THOMAI ALEXIOU Lecturer in the Department of Primary Education, University of the Aegean, Greece HUILI CHEN is currently working as a Content Development Manager at Elsevier ANNABELLE DAVID Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Newcastle University, UK DAVID DICKINSON Professor in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University, USA VIV EDWARDS Professor of Language in Education, University of Reading, UK TANYA FLUSHMAN is a doctoral student in the Department of Teaching and Learning, Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, USA PAULINE FOSTER Reader in Applied Linguistics, St. Mary's University College, UK JILL FREIBERG is currently working on her doctorate at Vanderbilt University, USA TAO GUO is currently teaching at Shanghai International Studies University, China LOTTE HENRICHS is currently working on her doctoral dissertation at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ERNESTO MACARO Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Oxford, UK FLORENCE MYLES Director of the Centre for Research in Linguistics and Language Sciences, Newcastle University, UK, and Professor of French Linguistics in the School of Modern Languages VIVIENNE ROGERS is currently working on her doctorate at Newcastle University, UK SARAH RULE Research Fellow associated with the University of Southampton, UK ROB SCHOONEN Associate Professor of Second Language Acquisition, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ALISON SEALEY Senior Lecturer in Modern English Language, University of Birmingham, UK PETER SKEHAN works at the Chinese University of Hong Kong LILI TIAN is a doctoral student in the Department of Education, University of Oxford, UK HUIJUAN XUE works as International Development Coordinator, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK

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