Lexicon Exploration in English and Spanish Learners

Rosa María Jiménez Catalán is an Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Letters and Education at the University of La Rioja, Spain. She has taught subjects related to applied linguistics for over three decades, including vocabulary acquisition and development in second languages, lexical  availability, translation, second language acquisition, ELT methodology, and innovation and research in ELT. She has also taught instrumental English to undergraduate and postgraduate students on Hispanic Language and Literature and Education degree programmes. She has led research projects related to foreign language education, particularly concerning the acquisition and development of lexical competence and lexical availability of learners of English as a foreign language with different language profiles. She has also been a visiting lecturer and research fellow in the departments of Applied Linguistics at Concordia University, Lancaster University, and Birkbeck, University of London. She was formerly the director of the Applied Linguistics Research Group (GLAUR) at the University of La Rioja (GLAUR) and is the author or co-author of numerous publications in peer-reviewed publications on  vocabulary and lexical availability in second languages, including a monograph on lexical availability, published by Springer in 2014.

• Part I. Key Concepts, Methods and Tools in the Study of Learners’ Mental Lexicon in Additional Languages.- Chapter 1. Semantic Fluency in Additional Languages.- Chapter 2. Tools and resources for lexical availability research.- Part II. Exploring the Mental Lexicon of Learners of English as a Foreign Language.- Chapter 3. Comparing L2 and L3 EFL Learners’ Lexical-Semantic Fluency in Taxonomic, Emotional and Experiential Categories.- Chapter 4. Mental Representation of Culture in the Available Lexicon of English learners.- Chapter 5. Comparing Children’s and Adolescents’ Prototypical Word Associations in English as a Foreign Language.- Chapter 6. Creative L2 Learners’ Use of Clustering and Switching in L2 Fluency Performance.- Part III. Exploring the mental lexicon of learners of Spanish as a second/foreign language.- Chapter 7. Exploring the Structure of Semantic Networks in Spanish as a Foreign Language.- Chapter 8. Semantic search strategies in native and foreign language retrieval: A study of Greek learners of Spanish.- Chapter 9. Word Associations and Semantic Relations in the Available Lexicon of Polish Students Learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language.- Chapter 10. Word Associations and Semantic Relationships in the Lexical Availability of learners of Spanish as a Foreign Language.