Feb
10
Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
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Richards distinguishes seven major features of word knowledge:
- knowing the degree of probability of encountering the word in speech or print;
- knowing the limitations imposed on the use of the word according to function and situation;
- knowing the syntactic behavior associated with the word;
- knowing the underlying form of a word and the derivations that can be made of it;
- knowing the associations between the word and other words in the language;
- knowing the semantic value of the word ; and
- knowing many of the different meanings associated with the word.
Further writings which have extensively elaborated on the subject include works by Cohen (1986), Gass (1989), Read (1989), all of whom have a similar view to Richards’. Nation (1990), lists eight types of word knowledge, each for receptive and productive skills, giving a total of sixteen different subcomponents.
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