Lexical richness in Lithuanian beginner learners’ spoken and written language
A focus on production
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11263995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jurate Ruzaite (0000-0002-4519-8087, Vytautas Magnus University, corresponding author), Eglė Krivickaitė-Leišienė (0000-0002-5256-9536, Vytautas Magnus University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 85-107 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Baltic Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-9778 • E-ISSN: 1751-7877 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01629778.2024.2371450 |
| OpenAlex | W4400134890 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 32 |
The present research explores the productive vocabulary that beginner learners ofLithuanian as a foreign language use when speaking and writing. This study is basedon the newly developed Lithuanian Learner Corpus (LLC) and uses its subcorpus ofbeginner texts (103,148 tokens). It measures lexical richness in Lithuanian learnerlanguage (LLL) by examining lexical variation, distribution of lexical word classes,lexical errors, and formulaic language in spoken and written language. The resultsshow that beginner learners of Lithuanian use minimal lexical resources, and lexisused for pragmatic purposes is scarcely employed in either mode
Focus (optics · Linguistics · Lithuanian · Production (economics · Written language · Computer Science · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Second Language Acquisition and Learning · Writing and Handwriting Education
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| Highly cited | No |
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