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The Influence of First Language Lexicalization on Second Language Lexical Inferencing: A Study of Farsi-Speaking Learners of English as a Foreign Language
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Paribakht, T. Sima – Language Learning, 2005
This article reports on an introspective study that examined the relationship between first language L1; Farsi lexicalization of the concepts represented by the second language L2; English target words and learners' inferencing behavior while reading English texts. Participants were 20 Farsi-speaking university students of English as a foreign…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Foreign Countries