ESL Vocabulary Acquisition: Target and Approach.

Autor/in	Cervatiuc, Andreea
Titel	ESL Vocabulary Acquisition: Target and Approach.
Quelle	In: The internet TESL journal, 14 (2008) 1 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
Schlagwörter	Aktiver Wortschatz; Native Speaker; Passiver Wortschatz; Vergleichende Analyse; Wortschatzarbeit; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Englischunterricht; Leseverstehen; Erwachsenenbildung
Abstract	A widely accepted distinction related to vocabulary knowledge refers to lexical "receptive knowledge", which involves the ability to understand a word while listening or reading, versus "productive knowledge", the ability to use a word in speaking or writing. As a rule of thumb, the receptive vocabulary is at least twice the size of the productive vocabulary. The article looks at the average receptive vocabulary size of adult native English speakers, inquires into whether non-native speakers can acquire a receptive vocabulary size comparable to that of native speakers, and discusses the amount and type of words needed for reading comprehension in a second language. The purpose of the article is to provide teachers of English as a second language with the key research findings suggesting that acquiring a native-like receptive vocabulary size in a second language as an adult learner is an ambitious but achievable goal and to justify why direct vocabulary teaching of the most frequent words is a feasible proposition. (Verlag, adapt.).
Erfasst von	Informationszentrum für Fremdsprachenforschung, Marburg
Update	2022/3