Lexical Facility Size, Recognition Speed and Consistency as Dimensions of Second Language Vocabulary Knowledge /

• Main Author: Harrington, Michael (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Applied linguistics.; Psycholinguistics.; Lexicology.; Linguistics.; Applied Linguistics.; Lexicology/Vocabulary.; Theoretical Linguistics.

This book examines the simultaneous contribution of learner vocabulary size and speed to second language performance differences across learner levels and settings. Harrington considers vocabulary size and speed, as reflected in retrieval speed and consistency, as a three-dimensional measurement con...

Table of Contents:

• - Chapter 1. Size as a dimension of L2 Vocabulary Skill
• Chapter 2. Measuring Recognition Vocabulary Size
• Chapter 3. Word recognition skill as an aspect of L2 vocabulary knowledge
• Chapter 4. Lexical Facility: Bringing size and speed together
• Chapter 5. Measuring lexical facility
• Chapter 6. Lexical Facility as an index of L2 Proficiency
• Chapter 7. Lexical Facility and Academic English Proficiency
• Chapter 8. Lexical Facility and IELTS performance
• Chapter 9. Lexical Facility and Language Program Placement
• Chapter 10. Lexical Facility and academic performance in English
• Chapter 11. The effect of Lexical Facility
• Chapter 12. The future of Lexical Facility.