Lexical knowledge


 * Lexical acquisition is central to Second Language Acquisition (SLA) as vocabulary is basic to communication, and often regarded as the greatest source of problems by language learners (Segler et al., 2002). The importance of lexical knowledge is also stressed by the fact that grammatical errors still result in understandable structures, while vocabulary errors may disrupt communication (Gass, 1988).


 * According to Richard’s “Vocabulary Knowledge Framework”, knowing a word means knowing about the word’s: frequency and collocability; register; position; form; associations; meaning-concept (knowledge about the semantic value of the word); and meaning-associations (knowledge about the word’s different meanings).Nation (1990) adds a receptive/productive feature to Richard’s list and presents questions which should be asked and answered to discover whether a person knows a word.


 * Anatomical word root: http://manoa.hawaii.edu/learning/PDFhandouts/StudySkills/Word%20Roots.pdf

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