Writing to learn academic words : assessment, cognition, and learning
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Writing to learn academic words : assessment, cognition, and learning
（Second language learning and teaching / series editor, Mirosław Pawlak）
Springer, c2022
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Includes bibliographical references
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Description
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 to underscore the challenges associated with the learning of academic words. Then, it reports on three empirical studies conducted in the Polish context. The first study develops a reliable tool to assess the knowledge of academic vocabulary of undergraduate learners. The second and third studies investigate the learning of academic words after the writing of sentences and argumentative essays, and discuss the role of cognition as a mediator of such learning. The book also provides an accessible introduction to linear mixed-effect models, a powerful, reliable, and flexible statistical technique that has been gaining popularity among SLA and psycholinguistics researchers.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1: The Importance of General and Academic Vocabulary 2: Incidental Lexical Learning3: The Writing Cycle and Cognitive Processes that May Affect Learning 4: An Overview of the Research Project5: 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 18: 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
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