We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Analysing lexical richness in French learner language: what frequency lists and teacher judgements can tell us about basic and advanced words.
- Authors
FRAN?OISE TIDBALL; JEANINE TREFFERS-DALLER
- Abstract
In this paper we study different aspects of lexical richness in narratives of British learners of French. In particular we focus on different ways of measuring lexical sophistication. We compare the power of three different operationalisations of the Advanced Guiraud (AG) (Daller, van Hout and Treffers-Daller, 2003): one based on teacher judgement, one on "le français fondamental 1er degré" and one on frequency of lexical items. The results show that teacher judgement is a highly reliable tool for assessing lexical sophistication. The AG based on teacher judgements is better able to discriminate between the groups than the other operationalisations. It also works better than Vocabprofil (the French version of Laufer and Nation's (1995) Lexical Frequency Profile).
- Subjects
FRENCH language education -- English speakers; LANGUAGE teachers; LEXICAL access; FRENCH language ability testing; FRENCH language; FRENCH language -- Usage; LEXICOLOGY
- Publication
Journal of French Language Studies, 2008, Vol 18, Issue 3, p299
- ISSN
0959-2695
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959269508003463