Abstract:This study explores the words that 265 pre-university (12th grade) English as a foreign language learners produce in response to the prompt ‘Food and drink’. Specifically, it aims to (i) ascertain the number of cultural words this sample of learners retrieved overall and in their first responses to the abovementioned word stimulus; (ii) classify the culture these terms represent, i.e., source, target and international, and (iii) account for sex-based differences in cultural word elicitation. Our findings evinc… Show more
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