To What Extent Does Long-Term Foreign Language Education Help Improve Spoken Second Language Lexical Proficiency?

Autor/in	Saito, Kazuya
Titel	To What Extent Does Long-Term Foreign Language Education Help Improve Spoken Second Language Lexical Proficiency?
Quelle	In: TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 53 (2019) 1, S.82-107 (26 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Saito, Kazuya)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0039-8322
DOI	10.1002/tesq.468
Schlagwörter	Second Language Learning; Second Language Instruction; Language Proficiency; Morphology (Languages); Syntax; Accuracy; Semantics; Speech Communication; Undergraduate Students; Contrastive Linguistics; Japanese; Native Language; English (Second Language); Individual Differences; Correlation; Word Frequency; Vocabulary Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Morphology; Morphologie; Semantik; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Japaner; Japanisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Individueller Unterschied; Korrelation; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Aktiver Wortschatz
Abstract	The current study examined lexical aspects of second language (L2) speech attainment in the foreign language (FL) classroom setting (i.e., several hours of target language input per week). A total of 72 second-year university students with 7 years of FL study and no experience abroad participated in the study. Their spontaneous speech was analyzed via a set of lexical measures and then compared to that of experienced, naturalistic Japanese L2 learners of English. According to the results, their lexical proficiency was factored into three dimensions--appropriateness (global, semantic, morphosyntactic accuracy), specificity (frequency, range), and abstractness (concreteness, meaningfulness, imageability, hypernymy). Overall, extensive FL education led many participants' specificity performance to reach proficiency levels comparable to the baseline group. Approximately half of participants achieved such satisfactory proficiency in abstractness. The participants' lexical appropriateness demonstrated a great deal of individual variability and was linked to the extent to which they had recently practiced the target language. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01