Lexial Choices

[Oswald Lemus]

Writingteachers might wonder how they can help L2 writers who misuse collocations or do not know how to use a variety of collocations in their professional and academic writing. This chapter demonstrates how a wildcard search in Google Scholar can help L2 writers self-correct awkward collocations and make appropriate word choices in their writing. The chapter also includes a sample exercise to help teachers and students practice using the wildcard search feature in their classroom.

Phonological development and phonetic mastery do not synchronise precisely. A common example of this asynchrony, referred to by Smith (1973) as the puzzle phenomenon, is provided by children who realise /s/ and /z/ as 'th' sounds, while producing "th-words" with [f] in place of voiceless 'th', and [d] or [v] in place of //.

The following classic example of phonetic ability preceding phonological execution came from a client, Andrew, aged 4;6. The word on the left in each case is the target word, and the word on the right reflects Andrew's production.

Evidence from studies of lexical selection provides support for the view that children are "aware" of their phonetic limitations very early (i.e., during the first 50 words stage) (Ferguson & Farwell, 1975; Schwartz & Leonard, 1982). How conscious the awareness is, of course is uncertain, but children do seem to reflect limitations of motor speech control in their early word choices.

N2 - From the end-user's point of view machine readable dictionaries have clear advantages over conventional lexica in terms of ease and immediacy of access as well as selectivity and presentation of information. For the developer of other CALL applications readily available lexical modules which can be integrated into other programs save a considerable amount of time and add a new dimension to their application. The design of lexical resources presents a number of problems. Decisions must be made about the type of information provided and the form in which this informution is mude accessible to the developer of the host application and/or the end user. The dictionary's role in the learner's acquisition of vocabulary as opposed to its traditional function as a tool of reference is considered. To illustrate some of the possibilities and choices this paper discusses the design and implementation of such a lexicul resource for English learners of German. 1994.

AB - From the end-user's point of view machine readable dictionaries have clear advantages over conventional lexica in terms of ease and immediacy of access as well as selectivity and presentation of information. For the developer of other CALL applications readily available lexical modules which can be integrated into other programs save a considerable amount of time and add a new dimension to their application. The design of lexical resources presents a number of problems. Decisions must be made about the type of information provided and the form in which this informution is mude accessible to the developer of the host application and/or the end user. The dictionary's role in the learner's acquisition of vocabulary as opposed to its traditional function as a tool of reference is considered. To illustrate some of the possibilities and choices this paper discusses the design and implementation of such a lexicul resource for English learners of German. 1994.

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