Mental Lexicon Study and Its Enlightening to Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition of L2

摘要

The theories of mental lexicon explain how words are organized and accessed in human brain from the angle of psycho linguistics. It draws great interest to study on the field of psycholinguistics and SLA. This paper focuses on incidental vocabulary acquisition of L2 and explores how to assist learners to reinforce and expand their network of mental lexicon by applying all kinds of mental connection in order to promote the learners to acquire English vocabulary.