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A collection of empirical studies on gender and the acquisition, development, meaning and use of vocabulary by female and male adult, adolescent, and young learners of English and Spanish as a second or foreign language. Up-to-date research identifies relationships between gender and vocabulary in a language classroom context.

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Author:   Rosa Maria Jimenez Catalan (University of La Rioja)
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780230232624

ISBN 10:   0230232620
Pages:   269
Publication Date:   18 February 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Theorising Gender Perspectives in Foreign and Second Language Learning; J.Sunderland PART I: GENDER TENDENCIES IN LEXICAL ACQUISITION, DEVELOPMENT AND USE More Than Words: Inferential and Incorrect Units Recalled; C.Brantmeier Gender and Mother Tongue in EFL Learners' Lexicon; M.Díez Prados Exploring the Role of Gender in Lexical Creations; M.P.Agustín Llach Gender and Motivation in EFL Vocabulary Production; A.Fernández Fontecha Gender Tendencies in EFL across Vocabulary Tests; R.M.Jiménez Catalán Boys' and Girls' L2 Word Associations; S.Moreno Espinosa PART II: GENDERED WORDS: REPRESENTATION AND IDENTITIES A Case Study of Mrs. Smith's Words and Her Quiet Girls; A.Jule Gender Identity in Words for Professional Titles in Textbooks; M.Bengoechea & J.Simón Humor, Vocabulary, and Individuality in an EFL Task; J.Ojeda Alba Lexical Encoding of Gender Relations and Identities; A.García Gómez Index

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MARÍA PILAR AGUSTÍN LLACH works as an assistant teacher at the Department of Modern Languages of University of La Rioja, Spain MERCEDES BENGOECHEA is Senior Lecturer in Sociolinguistics, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain CINDY BRANTMEIER is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and Spanish, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Washington University, St. Louis, USA MERCEDES DÍEZ PRADOS is Associate Professor at Alcalá University, Spain ALMUDENA FERNÁNDEZ FONTECHA teaches Applied Linguistics courses in the Department of Modern Languages, University of La Rioja, Spain ANTONIO GARCÍA GÓMEZ teaches Functional Linguistics and Discourse Analysis at the University of Alcalá de Henares de Madrid, Spain. ALLYSON JULE is Associate Professor of Education and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University in British Columbia, Canada. SORAYA MORENO ESPINOSA holds a tenure at the Official Language School in Logroño, Spain, where she teaches English and co-ordinates several programmes on assessment. JULIETA OJEDA ALBA is Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of La Rioja, Spain JOSÉ SIMÓN is Senior Lecturer in Computational Linguistics, (and Information Technologies for Language Teaching and Research) Universidad de Alcalá, Spain JANE SUNDERLAND is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, UK

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