A longitudinal study of vocabulary in L2 academic English writing of Arabic first-language students: development and measurement

This corpus based study investigates the lexical development of forty-two 'English as a Second language' (ESL) university students, using 340 formal examination essays, written at regular intervals over a period of twenty-seven months. One of the main research questions is how vocabulary g...

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Main Author: Turlik, Jan
Published: University of the West of England, Bristol 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486367