Tools for Researching Vocabulary, livre ebook

This book introduces an innovative collection of easy-to-use computer programs that have been developed to measure and model vocabulary knowledge. The book aims to help researchers discover new instruments for lexical analysis, and provides a theoretical framework in which studies with such tools could be conducted. Each of the programs comes with a short manual explaining how to use the program, an example of a published paper that uses the program and a set of questions that readers can develop into proper projects. The programs can be used in real research projects and have the potential to break new ground for research in L2 vocabulary acquisition. The book will be of great use to final year undergraduates and masters students in applied linguistics, second language acquisition, psycholinguistics and language testing and to PhD students doing research methods courses.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section 1: Processing Vocabulary Data

Chapter 1. V_Words and V_Lists

Section 2: Measuring Lexical Variation, Sophistication and Originality

Chapter 2. D_Tools

Chapter 3. P_Lex

Chapter 4. Lexical Signatures

Chapter 5. V_Unique

Section 3: Estimating Vocabulary Size

Chapter 6. V_YesNo

Chapter 7. V_Size

Chapter 8. V_Capture

Section 4: Measuring Lexical Access

Chapter 9. Q_Lex

Section 5: Assessing Aptitude for L2 Vocabulary Learning

Chapter 10. LLAMA_B

Section 6: Modelling Vocabulary Growth

Chapter 11. Mezzofanti

Envoi

Index