摘要
Abstract
This paper aims at investigating the relationship within, and representation and pattems of the mental lexicon of low-level EFL （English as a foreign language） learners in China, organizational with a view to revealing the inherent laws of vocabulary acquisition and improving the efficiency of vocabulary learning and acquisition in more scientific and reasonable ways. The results, based on the elicitation of the participants＇ responses to the word association tests, shows that paradigmatic associations within the mental lexicon English words are stored in relation to their syntagmatic and of the subjects undertaking the tests, and that, in the main, the syntagmatic associations in the mental lexicon of these low-level EFL learners outnumber the paradigmatic associations by a considerable margin. However, the results of this study do not see eye to eye with previous researchers on the purport that the mental lexicon of Chinese EFL learners was mainly based on phonological connections.关键词
心理词汇/词汇发展/关联/词汇联想测试/组织模式Key words
EFL mental lexicon/lexical development/connection/word association tests/organizational patterns分类
社会科学
