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1)<br>Date: 30 Jan 2013<br>From:Eric Wallace <<a href="mailto:ehwallac@andrew.cmu.edu" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">ehwallac@andrew.cmu.edu</a>><br>Subject:Needs Lexical Inference Studies focused on L1 Arabic/L2 English<br>

<br>[please respond directly to the requester]<div><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hello. I'm a student in the Second Language Acquisition PhD program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. I'm currently designing my dissertation study....</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I'm interested in designing a training study to help advanced L2 English readers better infer the meanings of unknown words they encounter while reading (i.e. lexical inference). Few studies have looked at L2 lexical inference, and even fewer have looked at training L2 lexical inference. I am interested in working with L1 Arabic speakers for my dissertation research.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Aside from the study by Zaid (2009) "A Comparison of Inferencing and Meaning-guessing of New Lexicon in Context versus Non-context Vocabulary Presentation", I cannot locate any other lexical inference studies that have focused squarely on lexical inference with L1 Arabic speakers reading L2 English.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Do you happen to know of any other lexical inference studies that have focused on L1 Arabic/L2 English?</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Thank you,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Eric Wallace</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Second Language Acquistion PhD Program</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Carnegie Mellon University</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Modern Languages Dept.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">BH 160</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Pittsburgh, PA 15213</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

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