Eric Wallace's review of Connected Word: Word Associations and Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition
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Meara’s new volume primarily focuses on how word association data can be used in second language vocabulary acquisition research, particularly in the areas of the development of vocabulary depth, productive vocabulary skills and lexical organization in second language (L2) speakers. His book also serves as a concise summation of research to date involving word associations and second language vocabulary development. Given that Meara has done much work of significance in this area and that the majority of chapters comprise research which he has previously authored or co-authored, this book also doubles as an historical overview of Meara’s own research with word associations and second language vocabulary acquisition.
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