Lexical Availability and Foreign Language Teaching: Main Contributions of a Growing Field
Marta Sánchez-Saus Laserna
Abstract:Teaching vocabulary presents a significant challenge in foreign language instruction. This article discusses the advantages that the results obtained in studies on lexical availability offer for foreign language teaching. The methodology of lexical availability, which involves extracting vocabulary that is closely associated with specific lexical categories, was first developed in France in the 1950s, and since then, it has been predominantly used for teaching Spanish as a first language. More recently, in the… Show more
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