Tools for Researching Vocabulary

Paul Meara is Emeritus Professor, Swansea University, UK and a leading scholar in the field of vocabulary acquisition. He has published extensively in this area and has held many positions of responsibility including Chair of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. He was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Chartered Institute of Linguists in 2010 and was elected to the UK Academy of Social Sciences in 2011.Imma Miralpeix obtained her PhD from the University of Barcelona, Spain where she is Lecturer and Researcher. Her main research interests include second language vocabulary acquisition, especially lexical development and assessment, and multilingualism. She is the author of several publications in these areas and has taken part in different funded projects on second language learning and teaching.

• AcknowledgementsIntroductionSection 1: Processing Vocabulary DataChapter 1. V_Words and V_ListsSection 2: Measuring Lexical Variation, Sophistication and OriginalityChapter 2. D_ToolsChapter 3. P_LexChapter 4. Lexical SignaturesChapter 5. V_UniqueSection 3: Estimating Vocabulary SizeChapter 6. V_YesNoChapter 7. V_SizeChapter 8. V_CaptureSection 4: Measuring Lexical AccessChapter 9. Q_LexSection 5: Assessing Aptitude for L2 Vocabulary LearningChapter 10. LLAMA_BSection 6: Modelling Vocabulary GrowthChapter 11. MezzofantiEnvoiIndex

This is a book that is of great value to researchers interested in vocabulary. The programs described in the book are highly innovative and imaginative. The questions that the programs are designed to answer lie at the heart of language learning and assessment, and the programs strikingly represent the designers thinking outside the box.