Vocabulary and Applied Linguistics

Attempts to stress the importance of vocabulary in linguistics. This book is a series of articles which cover much of the current research activity in the applied linguistics of vocabulary description, learning and teaching. The authors include Baita Lauf

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Vocabulary and Applied Linguistics Edited by

Pierre J.L. Arnaud Senior Lecturer in English, Universite Lumiere, Lyon and

Henri Bejoint Senior Lecturer in English, Universite Lumiere, Lyon

Selection, editorial matter and Introduction ©Pierre J. L. Arnaud and Henri Bl!joint 1992 Chapter 2 ©Rosamund Moon 1992 Chapter 7 ©Jean Aitchison 1992 Remaining Chapters ©Macmillan Academic and Professional Ltd 1992 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1992 978-0-333-55234-6 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 1992 by MACMILLAN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world ISBN 978-1-349-12398-8 ISBN 978-1-349-12396-4 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-12396-4

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Contents Acknowledgements

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Notes on the Contributors

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Introduction Pierre J.L. Arnaud and Henri Bejoint 1 Multiword Lexical Units and Communicative Language Teaching

Anthony P. Cowie

2 Textual Aspects of Fixed Expressions in Learners' Dictionaries

Rosamund Moon

3 Fixed Phrases in Monolingual Learners' Dictionaries

Linda Verstraten

4 Bilingual Dictionaries: Between Language and Speech

Christine Winter

5 Ll, L2, L3: Continuity vs. Discontinuity in Lexical Acquisition H. Wode, A. Rohde, F. Gassen, B. Weiss, M. Jekat and

P. Jung

6 Network Structures and Vocabulary Acquisition in a Foreign Language

Paul Meara

7 Good Birds, Better Birds and Amazing Birds: The Development of Prototypes

Jean Aitchison

8 L1 Influence on Learners' Renderings of English Collocations: A Polish/German Empirical Study

Danuta Biskup

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9 Individual Differences in Vocabulary Acquisition: A Qualitative Experiment in the First Phase of Secondary Education

Caroline Schouten-van Parreren

10 Learners' Spontaneous Translations in an L2 Reading Comprehension Task: Vocabulary Knowledge and Use of Schemata

Marsha Bensoussan

11 Retention of Inferred and Given Word Meanings: Experiments in Incidental Vocabulary Learning Jan H. Hulstijn 12 How Much Lexis Is Necessary for Reading Comprehension?

Batia Laufer

13 Objective Lexical and Grammatical Characteristics of L2 Written Compositions and the Validity of Separate-Component Tests Pierre J.L. Arnaud 14 The Foreign Language Vocabulary Acquisition of Mono- and Bilingual Children and Teachers' Evaluation Ability

Guust Meijers

15 The Role of Experience in a Cont