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Record Nr.

UNINA9910590082203321

Autore

Silva Breno B.

Titolo

Writing to Learn Academic Words : Assessment, Cognition, and Learning / / by Breno B. Silva

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

9783031065057

9783031065040

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages)

Collana

Second Language Learning and Teaching, , 2193-7656

Disciplina

407.1

808.02

Soggetti

Education, Higher

Language and languages - Study and teaching

Educational tests and measurements

Higher Education

Language Education

Assessment and Testing

Anglès

Ensenyament de la llengua

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1: The Importance of General and Academic Vocabulary -- 2: Incidental Lexical Learning -- 3: The Writing Cycle and Cognitive Processes that May Affect Learning -- 4: An Overview of the Research Project -- 5: Inferential statistics and linear mixed models -- 6: Study 1 The Assessment of Academic Vocabulary: Developing a Reliable Academic Placement Tool -- 7: Discussion of findings for Study 1 -- 8: Study 2 Lexical Learning through Writing Sentences and Timed essays -- 9: Study 3 Lexical Learning through Writing Sentences, Timed and Untimed essays -- 10: Discussion for Studies 2 and 3. .

Sommario/riassunto

This book highlights the importance of English academic vocabulary for success at university and explores written tasks as effective



pedagogical tools to promote the acquisition of academic words. The book reviews germane and recent SLA, psycholinguistic, corpus linguistics, and L2 writing research to underscore the challenges associated with the learning of academic words. Then, it reports on three empirical studies conducted in the Polish context. The first study develops a reliable tool to assess the knowledge of academic vocabulary of undergraduate learners. The second and third studies investigate the learning of academic words after the writing of sentences and argumentative essays, and discuss the role of cognition as a mediator of such learning. The book also provides an accessible introduction to linear mixed-effect models, a powerful, reliable, and flexible statistical technique that has been gaining popularity among SLA and psycholinguistics researchers.