Author(s)

Chunxia Zhang

Corresponding Author

Chunxia Zhang

Abstract

Vocabulary is an extremely important part of second language learning. With the importance of vocabulary, More and more researchers are studying the mental lexicon through vocabulary association tests. Nearly half a century’s investigation of the representational structure of the bilingual mental lexicon has produced dozens of studies. This study analyzes the way theL2 mental lexicon are stored for college students from the perspective of the research object, the research method, the research result and the research significance.

Keywords

Mental Lexicon, Storage Model, Second language, Word association