Lexical Issues
in L2 Writing
Lexical Issues in L2 Writing
Edited by
Päivi Pietilä, Katalin Doró
and Renata Pípalová
Lexical Issues in L2 Writing
Edited by Päivi Pietilä, Katalin Doró and Renata Pípalová This book first published 2015
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK
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ISBN (10): 1-4438-8022-1 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-8022-0
T ABLE OF C ONTENTS
Introduction ... 1
Chapter One ... 11 Researching Vocabulary in L2 Writing: Methodological Issues and
Pedagogical Implications Katalin Doró and Päivi Pietilä Part I Influences and Strategies
Chapter Two ... 29 Studies of Danish L2 Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge and the Lexical Richness of Their Written Production in English
Birgit Henriksen and Lise Danelund
Chapter Three ... 57 Changes in the Lexical Measures of Undergraduate EFL Students’
Argumentative Essays Katalin Doró
Chapter Four ... 77 Lexical Richness in Expository Essays Written by Learners of L3 French Maarit Mutta
Part II Disciplinary Differences
Chapter Five ... 105 Lexical Diversity in L2 Academic Writing: A Look at MA Thesis
Conclusions Päivi Pietilä
Chapter Six ... 127 Reporting Verbs in Native and Non-Native Academic Discourse
Renata Pípalová
Table of Contents
Chapter Seven ... 155 Academic Vocabulary and Readability in EFL Theses
Signe-Anita Lindgrén
Part III Collocations and Lexical Bundles
Chapter Eight ... 177 Two Different Methodologies in the Identification of Recurrent Word Combinations in English L2 Writing
Britt Erman
Chapter Nine ... 207 A Lexical Analysis of In-Service EFL Teaching Portfolios
Magdolna Lehmann
Contributors ... 231 Index ... 235