What do you think about "The relationship between L2 Vocabulary Knowledge and L2 Vocabulary use" according to Paul Meara? indicated in Macaro's Continuum companion to second language acquisition book. Kindly share your ideas/comments/references.
Dear Ehsan,
Concerned scholars like Richards (1976) , Wesche and Paribakht (1996) Have provided detailed descriptions of L2 word knowledge and how individual words get integrated into L2 lexicon. However, Meara is of the opinion that instead of focusing on what a word means, we should adopt a holistic approach and try to focus on L2 vocabulary use.
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R. Biria
I think it also concerns the difference between recognition and recall. The former means knowing and remembering the target language words when seeing them, and the latter means being able to retrieve them from LTM and use them in contexts. L2 vocab use wouldnt be possible without the knowledge about L2 vocab that precedes its use.
As previous RG members pointed out, word use would not be accessible unless a range of word knowledge is gain. However word knowledge itself is controversial issue since it includes:
1. The spoken form of a word.
2. The written form of a word.
3. The grammatical behavior of the word.
4. The collocation behavior of the word.
5. How frequent the word is.
6. The stylistic register constraints of a word.
7. The conceptual meaning of a word.
8. The associations a word has with other related words.
The controversial issue is that some learners are able to use their knowledge earlier than other, they gain all various knowledge ( from 1 to 8); however some others behavior is different. The last word of mine, less performance in any context (exam or real communication) can not mean that a person does not have the knowledge of word.
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