Gender Perspectives on Vocabulary in Foreign and Second Languages

ISBN-13: 9780230232624 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 269 str.

Rosa Maria Jimanez Catalan

Opis

This book studies sex and gender in second/foreign language learning, testing and teaching, by investigating the relationship of sex/gender and the vocabulary assessment, vocabulary acquisition and development of second/foreign language learners.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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