In language teaching and learning, the correct use of vocabulary in target is as important language's grammar. This study investigates lexical semantic errors academic writing 4th-year undergraduate students at National University Lesotho. Using random sampling method, ten Action Research reports were selected. Errors identified analyzed using Hemchua Schmitt's (2006) classification. Findings i...

Nonword repetition (NWR) has been used extensively in the study of child language. Although lexical and sub-lexical knowledge is known to influence NWR performance, there has been little examination of the NWR processes (e.g., encoding, storage, articulation) that may be affected by lexical and sub-lexical knowledge. We administered 2and 3-syllable spoken nonword recognition and nonword repetit...

There is a strong correlation between spelling errors and web text content quality. Using our lexical quality measure, based in a small corpus of spelling errors, we present an estimation of the lexical quality of the main Social Media sites. This paper presents an updated and complete analysis of the lexical quality of Social Media written in English and Spanish, including how lexical quality ...

Mastering lexical collocation uses in learning English as a foreign language is absolutely essential to develop students’ communicative skills and linguistic abilities. Most students, however, have problems with putting words together characteristic of “natural” native speaker-like manner during writing. Students tend use strange expressions therefore production does not sound natural carries i...

Lexical stress plays an important role in the prosody of German, and presents a considerable challenge to native speakers of languages such as French who are learning German as a foreign language. These learners stand to benefit greatly from Computer-Assisted Pronunciation Training (CAPT) systems which can offer individualized corrective feedback on such errors, and reliable automatic detection...

This retrospective, exploratory investigation examined the types of target words that 30 children with word-finding difficulties (aged 8 to 12 years) had difficulty naming and the types of errors they made on these words. Words were studied with reference to lexical factors that might influence naming performance: word frequency, age of acquisition, familiarity, and lexical neighborhood. Findin...

We examine the mechanisms that support interaction between lexical, phonological and phonetic processes during language production. Studies of the phonetics of speech errors have provided evidence that partially activated lexical and phonological representations influence phonetic processing. We examine how these interactive effects are modulated by lexical frequency. Previous research has demo...

this project investigates the relationship between lexical semantics and causative morphology in the acquisition of causative/inchoative-related verbs in english as a foreign language by iranian speakers. results of translation and picture judgment task show although l2 learners have largely acquired the correct lexico-syntactic classification of verbs in english, they were constrained by the m...