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Vocabulary elaboration in teachers' speech to L2 learners1*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2008

Craig Chaudron
Craig Chaudron
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University of California, Los Angeles
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Abstract

Subject-matter lessons taught to English as a second language learners in several school levels were transcribed and analyzed. Characteristics of the teachers' speech when elaborating vocabulary were isolated and described, with a view to determining which characteristics would be helpful and which harmful to the students' comprehension and acquisition of vocabulary. It is seen that a major problem for the student may lie in the teacher's overelab-oration of vocabulary meanings through increased redundancy; the non-native listener may find it difficult to decode the exact message, because he cannot discern whether the same information has been provided redundantly or whether new information has been supplied.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , Spring 1982 , pp. 170 - 180
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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