Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Foreign Language Acquisition

By Višnja Pavičić Takač. 2008

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The book discusses vocabulary learning strategies as an integral subgroup of language learning strategies. It defines language learning strategies in general and their features on the basis of cognitive theory and relevant models of second language acquisition as the basis for empirical research. Furthermore, the book gives a survey of research on vocabulary learning strategies and describes three original empirical studies. Thus, the book attempts at integrating the approaches of theories of second language acquisition, the theory and practice of instructed foreign language learning, and the findings of current empirical research.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Literature and Literary Theory

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Manuela Macedonia
2. A. Asgari
3. Thomas R. Knösche
4. Ghazali Mustapha
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In Education

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2. Thomas R. Knösche
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4. Ghazali Mustapha
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Citations in the corpus

• Body in mind: How gestures empower foreign language learning (2011, background): “In foreign language education, the validity of a learning strategy is closely connected with the transferability of learned words into the production of sentences, specifically of new sentences (Pavicic-Takac, 2008).”
• Language Learning Strategies in Independent Settings (2008, unknown): “This volume—the latest in a fl urry of recent book-length treatments of secondlanguage (L2) strategies research (e.g., Cohen & Macaro, 2007 ; Pavičić Takač, 2008; Wakamoto, 2009 )—provides the fi rst comprehensive overview of the many issues found at the intersection of strategies and (broadly defi…”
• The Type of Vocabulary Learning Strategies Used by ESL Students in University Putra Malaysia. (2011, background): “…describes second language learning as a complex cognitive skill which, similar to other such skills, engages cognitive systems (such as perception, and information processing) to overcome limitations in human mental capacity which may inhibit performance (Ellis 2000, as cited by Višnja, 2008).”
• Engagement with language: interrogating a construct (2009, background): “My own interest in engagement was triggered by a number of recent publications on learner variables such as motivation and learning strategies (e.g. Dörnyei, 2003; Pavicic Takac, 2008) and a similar trend in postgraduate research proposals.”