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Gender Perspectives on Vocabulary in Foreign and Second Languages

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Theorizing Gender Perspectives in Foreign and Second Language Learning

  2. Gender Tendencies in Lexical Acquisition,Development and Use

  3. Gendered Words:Representation and Identities

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About this book

A collection of empirical studies on gender and the acquisition, development, meaning and use of vocabulary by female and male adult, adolescent, and young learners of English and Spanish as a second or foreign language. Up-to-date research identifies relationships between gender and vocabulary in a language classroom context.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of La Rioja, Spain

    Rosa María Jiménez Catalán

About the editor

MARÍA PILAR AGUSTÍN LLACH works as an assistant teacher at the Department of Modern Languages of University of La Rioja, Spain MERCEDES BENGOECHEA is Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain CINDY BRANTMEIER is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Washington University, St. Louis, USA MERCEDES DÍEZ PRADOS is Associate Professor at Alcalá University, Spain ALMUDENA FERNÁNDEZ FONTECHA teaches Applied Linguistics courses in the Department of Modern Languages, University of La Rioja, Spain ANTONIO GARCÍA GÓMEZ teaches Functional Linguistics and Discourse Analysis at the University of Alcalá de Henares de Madrid, Spain. ALLYSON JULE is Associate Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada. SORAYA MORENO ESPINOSA holds a tenure at the Official Language School in Logroño, Spain, where she teaches English and co-ordinates several programmes on assessment. JULIETA OJEDA ALBA is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of La Rioja, Spain JOSÉ SIMÓN is Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, (and Information Technologies for Language Teaching and Research) Universidad de Alcalá, Spain JANE SUNDERLAND is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK

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