Lexical Development in Instructed L2 Learners of French: Is there a Relationship with Morphosyntactic Development?

David, Annabelle; Myles, Florence; Rogers, Vivienne; Rule, Sarah

doi:10.1057/9780230242258_9

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“…Skehan (2009a) also reports that for non-native speakers, lexical variety is positively correlated with accuracy but negatively correlated with grammatical complexity. Conversely, David et al (2009) report lexical variety positively correlated with global grammatical complexity when aggregated across age groups.…”

Section: Caf Competition During Language Performancementioning

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The Development of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Second Language Performance: A Longitudinal Study

Vercellotti

2015

Applied Linguistics

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Section: Caf Competition During Language Performancementioning

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The Development of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Second Language Performance: A Longitudinal Study

Vercellotti

2015

Applied Linguistics

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“…Grammatical development was measured using Mean Length of Utterance (MLU). David et al (2009) found that lexical diversity correlated with MLU in that the more varied the vocabulary of the learner, the greater the MLU. However, in a similar study, Malvern et al (2004) found no correlations between lexical diversity and MLU in L2 French.…”

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“…In the same vein as Gyllstad (2007), several other studies have also shown a clear correlation between overall language proficiency and mastery of formulaic sequences (Boers et al 2006;Lewis 2008;Stengers et al 2011). The question concerning correlations between lexical richness and other measures has been investigated in David et al (2009). They examined the relationship between lexical development and morphosyntactic development in British learners of L2 French.…”

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“…However, in a similar study, Malvern et al (2004) found no correlations between lexical diversity and MLU in L2 French. In David et al (2009), lexical diversity was also compared to the use of grammatical gender. The results showed that there were no correlations between lexical diversity and gender.…”

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Vocabulary aspects of advanced L2 French

Lundell

Lindqvist

2012

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In her overview of research on the advanced L2 learner, Bartning (1997) aims at characterizing the advanced learner variety. This characterization is above all based on morphosyntactic traits. The aim of this contribution is to present additional characteristics of the advanced learner as defined by Bartning (1997), as well as to describe even more advanced levels based on recent research concerning spoken L2 French. More specifically, the main issue under investigation is whether two vocabulary measures, viz. lexical richness and lexical formulaic sequences, can be used to distinguish between different advanced levels and thus contribute to the characterization of the advanced learner of French. An additional issue investigated here is whether these two lexical aspects correlate with each other or whether they develop at different rates.

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“…It also demonstrates how the frequent and accurate use of the same verbs can impact on learners' accuracy scores (see also David et al 2009). As discussed in the results section, the beginner group scored higher on the Imperfect in the "Famous People"…”

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The importance of task variability in the design of learner corpora for SLA research

Tracy‐Ventura

Myles

2015

IJLCR

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This cross-sectional study investigates task variability focusing on the use of Spanish past tense morphology in a spoken learner corpus. Sixty L2 learners of Spanish (English L1) from three different proficiency levels (20 per group) and fifteen native speakers completed three communicative tasks (a guided interview, a picture-based narrative, and a historical figures description) and an experimental task, all designed to investigate the acquisition of tense and aspect in L2 Spanish. Data were transcribed in CHAT, and analysed and coded using a specially created interactive coding program that works in combination with the CLAN program (MacWhinney 2000). Results demonstrate significant differences in the emergence and accurate use of past tense morphology across tasks. An additional analysis showed that the less controlled tasks encouraged few instances of more advanced features, suggesting that not all task types are equally successful at eliciting the range of tense-aspect morphological contrasts theoretically relevant for SLA research on tense and aspect.

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Lexical Development in Instructed L2 Learners of French: Is there a Relationship with Morphosyntactic Development?

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The Development of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Second Language Performance: A Longitudinal Study

The Development of Complexity, Accuracy, and Fluency in Second Language Performance: A Longitudinal Study

Vocabulary aspects of advanced L2 French

The importance of task variability in the design of learner corpora for SLA research

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