Investigating lexical acquisition for adult foreign language learners

This paper deals with the acquisition of the lexicon of a foreign language by adult learners. The first part of the paper offers a brief overview of research on vocabulary learning and teaching; it also touches on the needs of adult language learners and the controversial question of whether vocabul...

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Main Author: Riana Roos
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2013-02-01
Series:Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning
Online Access:http://perlinguam.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/244