Lexical Availability in English and Spanish as a Second Language

1. Lexical Availability Studies
Humberto López Morales

Part I. Lexical Availability in English as L1 and L2

2. Lexical Availability of Basic and Advanced Semantic Categories in English L1 and English L2
Roberto A. Ferreira Campos

3. The Effect of Age on EFL Learners’ Lexical Availability: Word Responses to the Cue Words ‘Town’ and ‘Countryside’
Rosa María Jiménez Catalán, María Pilar Agustín Llach, Almudena Fernández Fontecha, Andrés Canga Alonso

4. The Incidence of Previous Foreign Language Contact in a Lexical Availability Task: A Study of Senior Learners
Francisco Gallardo Puerto, María Martínez Adrián

5. Lexical Variation in Learners’ Responses to Cue Words: The Effect of Gender
María Pilar Agustín Llach, Almudena Fernández Fontecha

6. Frequency Profiles of EFL Learners’ Lexical Availability
Rosa María Jiménez Catalán, Tess Fitzpatrick

Part II. Lexical Availability in Spanish as L1 and L2

7. The Relationship of Language Proficiency to the Lexical Availability of Learners of Spanish
Marta Samper Hernández

8. Slovene Students’ Lexical Availability in English and Spanish
Marjana Šifrar Kalan

9. The Effect of Instruction on Polish Spanish Learners’ Lexical Availability
Antonio María López González

10. Cognitive Factors of Lexical Availability in a Second Language
Natividad Hernández Muñoz, Cristina Izura, Carmela Tomé

Part III. Conclusion

11. Researching Lexical Availability in L2: Some Methodological Issues
Marta Samper Hernández, Rosa María Jiménez Catalán

Keywords: Education, Language Education, Applied Linguistics, Literacy, Psycholinguistics