The foreign language lexicon of monolinguals and immigrant heritage speakers: word production, clustering and switching

Arsema Pérez-Hernández

https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1941-2995

Spain

Universidad de La Rioja

Carmen Arsema Pérez Hernández is a PHD student at the University of La Rioja. She has obtained two competitive pre-doctoral research grants, and she has been a member of the Organizing Committee of the Online Symposium on Individual Differences and Creativity in L2 Learning (University of La Rioja, 2022). She has presented her research work in several international conferences, including the International Meeting EDUPLUS and AJL. Her academic achievements have been acknowledge by both her university and the government of her autonomous community.

Almudena Fernández-Fontecha

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6557-0296

Spain

Universidad de La Rioja

Almudena Fernández-Fontecha is an associate professor at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of La Rioja, Spain. Her current research interests include L2 vocabulary learning and the study of learner's variables, such as creativity. Some of her recent publications have appeared in various journals, including System, Thinking Skills and Creativity, International Journal of Multilingualism, Linguistics and Education, or Visual Communication. She is the author of various chapters in edited volumes, such as Lexical availability in English and Spanish as a second language (Springer, 2014, edited by R.M. Jiménez Catalán). 

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Accepted: 2025-03-11

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Published: 2025-07-25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2025.21684