Lexical Diversity and Language Development: Quantification and Assessment - Softcover

Malvern, David D.

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ISBN 10: 1403902321 ISBN 13: 9781403902320

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Vocabulary richness, including lexical diversity and use of rare words, has an important role in assessing proficiency, diagnosing progress and testing theory in the study of language development. This book reviews different methods for quantifying how vo

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DAVID D. MALVERN is Professor of Education, University of Reading, UK. He has been Research Officer at the Royal Society, Visiting Professor Department of Educational Psychology, McGill University, and European Union and British Council Consultant.

BRIAN J. RICHARDS is Professor of Education, University of Reading, UK, and for seventeen years was an associate editor of the Journal of Child Language

NGONI CHIPERE is Lecturer in Language Arts, University of the West Indies in Barbados, and author of Understanding Complex Sentences: Native Speaker Variation in Syntactic Competence published by Palgrave in 2004.

PILAR DURÁN gained a PhD at Boston University and was Research Officer, University of Reading, UK, before becoming Business Development Manager at Eurobios.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1403902321
• ISBN 13: 9781403902320
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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