Beschreibung
Six categories of vocabulary: false cognates, convergence, divergence,collocations, lexical void, and parallel words were reviewed and investigated focusing on the interlexical associations with relation to English and Turkish. It was observed that learners face difficulties with the words belonging to all these six categories to a certain extent. The data revealed that 'divergence' category was the hardest one and 'convergence' the easiest. Parallel category was surprisingly difficult whereas false cognates, collocations, and lexical voids showed to be not as difficult as expected. The results were interpreted in terms of difficulty of learning of word form as opposed to learning word meaning as well as the salience of L2 words caused by the differences between the L1 and the L2.
Autorenporträt
Levent Uzun is an academician at Uludag University, Faculty of Education, English Language Teaching Department. His interest areas are Vocabulary Acquisition, Foreign Language Material Development, Computer Assisted Language Learning, Distance Education, and Philosophy. He has published academic articles in several international journals.
