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Introduction: What Is CLIC?

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Based on a critique of two distinct perspectives on the nature of lexical meaning, Wang justifies the need for re-conceptualizing current views by proposing the concept of CLIC. Then, to justify the need for fostering CLIC through pedagogical intervention, she comprehensively reviews current vocabulary teaching/learning approaches, together with controversies over the two major approaches. After that, she justifies the need for the cultivation of CLIC through pedagogical intervention by revealing the inadequacies of commonly held linguistic assumptions concerning contextual lexical meaning in current vocabulary teaching/learning research. This is followed by the presentation of the general scope of the book.

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    In talking about the static view of lexical meaning, linguistic meaning and semantic meaning are used interchangeably in the following parts of the book. However, they have different emphases. While semantic meaning is used in closer relation to pragmatic meaning, linguistic meaning is more related to behaviorist L2 pedagogy and connotes mechanical practices.

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    Joseph Stalin (1878–1953) was a Soviet revolutionary and political leader. He governed the Soviet Union as its dictator from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

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Wang, G. (2019). Introduction: What Is CLIC?. In: Using Pedagogic Intervention to Cultivate Contextual Lexical Competence in L2. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92716-9_2

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