Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims at tracing the vocabulary profiles used by sixty secondary school Spanish students with different learning abilities to describe people of their same age and traditional festivals thanks to an e-mail tandem exchange with native speakers.Taking account of these texts, we aimed at (i) identifying the number of types and tokens used by the participants, (ii) classifying these tokens according to their lexical category, (iii) analysing if incidental vocabulary learning has taken place, and (iv) grading the types and tokens students produced according to the most frequent 1000 words of English (wordlist 1), the second 1000 most frequent words (wordlist 2), and words not included in the first 2000 words of English (wordlist 3).Our results indicate that (i) nouns are most frequently used by both groups, (ii) some incidental vocabulary has been learnt by students without learning difficulties related to festivals in England, (iii) most of the tokens students produced belong to wordlist 1, and (iv) students with learning difficulties slightly outperformed their partners without learning problems regarding the number of tokens and types included in wordlists 1 and 3. KEY WORDS. e-mail tandem,
Source: RIUR (Universidad de La Rioja)
Author: Andrés Canga Alonso
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W184424716