John P. Racine

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Can you think of any studies that justify the inclusion of collocations (alongside single-word items) in L2 vocabulary lists?

While most vocabulary lists (AWL, GSL, etc.) include only headwords, I believe it would be appropriate to include certain multi-word items. Reasons for their inclusion may be high frequency of...

08 November 2014 3,720 7 View

Can you think of any studies that justify the inclusion of members of the same word family (not just a single headword) in L2 vocabulary lists?

While most vocabulary lists (AWL, GSL, etc.) include only headwords, I believe it would be appropriate to include various derivatives, prefixed and affixed forms (e.g. unemployment, employee) in...

08 November 2014 2,839 10 View

Which experimental software (e.g., SuperLab, E-Prime, ...) do you recommend?

I'm planning to present simple word association and word recognition tasks and to record RTs via microphone or key press. I'd love to hear from people that have tried more than one package.

15 July 2013 7,099 14 View

Besides a lexical decision/word recognition task (with a measure of reaction time), what methodology would you recommend to see if L2 priming has occurred?

I'm trying to ascertain if underlying concepts or L1 representations have been activated during an L2 word association task.

10 July 2013 4,551 9 View

Is there anything in the Revised Hierarchical Model that says we should consider it only as a model of an entire lexicon rather than individual words?

In other words, the RHM describes 'L1-L2-concept' connections. Can we interpret that as both: 1. 'L1 representation of an individual word-L2 representation of an individual word-the underlying...

10 July 2013 7,930 2 View