Year: 2012
Type: article
Abstract: This is a review article on second language vocabulary research.Articles published in leading international research journals in 2003 are the scope of this investigation.The present review consists of the following key themes: amplifier collocations in the British National Corpus; a corpus-based study of idioms in academic speech; a corpus-based study aimed at identifying the most frequently used spoken American English idioms; the effects of task types on incidental second language vocabulary learning, task-induced amount of dictionary activity, and time-on-task; second language vocabulary learning from context; comparing vocabulary gains through reading with gains from word-focused activities; and the role of phonological memory and phonological awareness in foreign language word learning.
Author: Yuji Tanaka
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2917343175