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Lexical Richness in the Advanced Learner's Oral Production of French and Italian L2
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Lindqvist, Christina; Bardel, Camilla; Gudmundson, Anna – International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching (IRAL), 2011
This study investigates Swedish learners' lexical richness in French and Italian L2. A frequency-based measure was used to compare the lexical richness of learners at different proficiency levels to that of native speakers. Frequency bands based on oral L1 data were created for both languages to serve as a benchmark. For French, the results show…
Descriptors: Control Groups, French, Italian, Native Speakers
Aspects of Lexical Sophistication in Advanced Learners' Oral Production: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use in L2 French and Italian
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Bardel, Camilla; Gudmundson, Anna; Lindqvist, Christina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2012
This article reports on the design and use of a profiler for lexical sophistication (i.e., use of advanced vocabulary), which was created to assess the lexical richness of intermediate and advanced Swedish second language (L2) learners' French and Italian. It discusses how teachers' judgments (TJs) of word difficulty can contribute to the…
Descriptors: Basic Vocabulary, Effect Size, Profiles, Vocabulary Development