An investigative study of English vocabulary acquisition patterns in adult L2 tertiary learners with Chinese/Malay L1

This study investigates patterns of second language (L2) learners’ vocabulary acquisition of English in pedagogical contexts, and develops a vocabulary acquisition model, specifically a pre-receptive to productive vocabulary (PR-PV) model which analyses the patterns of inferencing strategies, the ro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Giridharan, Beena
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Curtin University 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2416