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the integration of the L2 vocabulary in learners’ mental lexicon, because the connection between learners’ L2 vocabulary and their mother tongue is a barrier to the establishment of networks between L2 words. Without enough connections between the L2 vocabulary, the process of lexical access is slow and unreliable. Therefore,
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No matter the theoretical perspective, the lexicon is a key component of language. In spite of this importance, it has not always been focus of mainstream second language acquisition research.
The present study is aimed to investigate the issue of how a human stores and access the knowledge of two or multiple language based on three models of bilingual and multilingual mental lexicon and to discuss the characteristics of interlanguage transfer found in bilingual and multilingual speakers.
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This book also regards second language acquisition (SLA) as a phenomenon of languages in contact and argues interlanguage (IL) system (i.e., second language learners’ developing system of the target language)
The lexical approach makes a distinction between vocabulary--traditionally understood as a stock of individual words with fixed meanings--and lexis, which includes not only the single words but also the word combinations that we store in our mental lexicons.
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The teaching portion looks at how words are introduced to and memorised by first and second-language learners in formal settings, then introduces second language teaching methods (grammar-translation, audiolingual, communicative) and how they approach vocabulary acquisition.
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The notion of a lexicon as a reference list of words is familiar to anyone who has used a dictionary or studied a foreign language. However, there are a number of important differences between the mental lexicon and conventional diction-aries, designed by people for speciÞc purposes. In the words of Hanks (2000),