Writing to learn academic words assessment, cognition, and learning /
This book highlights the importance of English academic vocabulary for success at university and explores written tasks as effective pedagogical tools to promote the acquisition of academic words. The book reviews germane and recent SLA, psycholinguistic, corpus linguistics, and L2 writing research...
| Main Author: | Silva, Breno B. |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online service) |
| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cham, Switzerland :
Springer,
2022.
Cham, Switzerland : 2022. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource. |
| Series: |
Second language learning and teaching.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 1: The Importance of General and Academic Vocabulary
- 2: Incidental Lexical Learning
- 3: The Writing Cycle and Cognitive Processes that May Affect Learning
- 4: An Overview of the Research Project
- 5: Inferential statistics and linear mixed models
- 6: Study 1 The Assessment of Academic Vocabulary: Developing a Reliable Academic Placement Tool
- 7: Discussion of findings for Study 1
- 8: Study 2 Lexical Learning through Writing Sentences and Timed essays
- 9: Study 3 Lexical Learning through Writing Sentences, Timed and Untimed essays
- 10: Discussion for Studies 2 and 3. .