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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136069503321

Autore

Meara Paul

Titolo

Tools for Researching Vocabulary / / Paul Meara, Imma Miralpeix

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Blue Ridge Summit, PA : , : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-78309-648-9

1-78309-647-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Second Language Acquisition

Disciplina

401/.4

Soggetti

Language and languages - Ability testing

Vocabulary - Ability testing

Vocabulary

Vocabulary - Research

Second language acquisition - Research

Education, Bilingual - Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes indexes.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. V_Words v2.0 and V_Lists v1.0 -- 2. D_Tools v2.0 -- 3. P_Lex v3.00 -- 4. Lexical Signatures -- 5. V_Unique v1.0 -- 6. V_YesNo v1.0 -- 7. V_Size v2.01 -- 8. V_Capture v1.0 -- 9. Q_Lex v4.0 -- 10. LLAMA_B v2.0 -- 11. Mezzofanti v1.0 -- Envoi -- Author Index -- Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.