Lexical Profiles of Comprehensible Second Language Speech: The Role of Appropriateness, Fluency, Variation, Sophistication, Abstractness, and Sense Relations

Autor/inn/en	Saito, Kazuya; Webb, Stuart; Trofimovich, Pavel; Isaacs, Talia
Titel	Lexical Profiles of Comprehensible Second Language Speech: The Role of Appropriateness, Fluency, Variation, Sophistication, Abstractness, and Sense Relations
Quelle	In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 38 (2016) 4, S.677-701 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-2631
DOI	10.1017/S0272263115000297
Schlagwörter	Profiles; Second Language Learning; Native Speakers; Evaluators; Oral Language; Personal Narratives; French; English (Second Language); Language Processing; Language Fluency; Language Variation; Vocabulary Skills; Correlation; Morphology (Languages) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Charakterisierung; Profilanalyse; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Muttersprachler; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Erlebniserzählung; Französisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachverarbeitung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Sprachenvielfalt; Aktiver Wortschatz; Korrelation; Morphology; Morphologie
Abstract	This study examined contributions of lexical factors to native-speaking raters' assessments of comprehensibility (ease of understanding) of second language (L2) speech. Extemporaneous oral narratives elicited from 40 French speakers of L2 English were transcribed and evaluated for comprehensibility by 10 raters. Subsequently, the samples were analyzed for 12 lexical variables targeting diverse domains of lexical usage (appropriateness, fluency, variation, sophistication, abstractness, and sense relations). For beginner-to-intermediate speakers, comprehensibility was related to basic uses of L2 vocabulary (fluent and accurate use of concrete words). For intermediate-to-advanced speakers, comprehensibility was linked to sophisticated uses of L2 lexis (morphologically accurate use of complex, less familiar, polysemous words). These findings, which highlight complex associations between lexical variables and L2 comprehensibility, suggest that improving comprehensibility requires attention to multiple lexical domains of L2 performance. (As Provided).
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