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Academic literacy of South African higher education level students: Does vocabulary size matter?
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2015 This study explores the extent to which vocabulary size matters in academic literacy. Participants (first-year students at North-West University) were administered the Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, Schmitt and Clapham 2001).
Déogratias Nizonkiza, Tobie van Dyk
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ANALYZING VOCABULARY LEVEL OF THE STUDENTS’ ESSAY WRITING AND ACADEMIC TEXTBOOK UTILIZING LEXTUTOR
Eternal (English, Teaching, Learning & Research Journal), 2015 The objectives of this study were to describe the result of the vocabulary level analysis of the students‟ essay writing and academic textbook utilizing lextutor, to investigate the effects of introducing VP web tool (lextutor) on students‟ vocabulary ...
Nur Aliyah Nur
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Lexical profile of literary academic articles
Ibérica, 2021 In this paper, we examine the lexical profile of literary academic articles with a view to determining how they differ from research articles in other disciplines and how the vocabulary level and complexity affect reading comprehension, particularly for
Vesna Bratić +1 more
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A New Academic Vocabulary List [PDF]
Applied Linguistics, 2013 This article presents our new Academic Vocabulary List (AVL), derived from a 120-million-word academic subcorpus of the 425-million-word Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA; Davies 2012). We first explore reasons why a new academic core list is warranted, and why such a list is still needed in English language education.
D. Gardner, M. Davies
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Vocabulary size revisited: the link between vocabulary size and academic achievement [PDF]
, 2013 Many researchers have tried to assess the number of words adults know. A general conclusion which emerges from such studies is that vocabularies of English monolingual adults are very large with considerable variation.
Milton, James, Treffers-Daller, Jeanine
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Educational Futures, 2023 The aim of this research was to explore UK undergraduates’ receptive knowledge of vocabulary and how these relate to academic achievement in order to improve educational outcomes for students. An estimate of undergraduate students’ receptive knowledge of
Jennifer Marshall
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SAGE Open, 2022 This study examines the relationship between L2 vocabulary knowledge, self-rating of word knowledge, self-perceptions of four language skills (listening, reading, speaking, and writing), and students’ academic achievement. An objective measure of lexical
Ahmed Masrai +2 more
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The Vocabulary-Comprehension Relationship across the Disciplines: Implications for Instruction
Education Sciences, 2018 The main purpose of vocabulary instruction is to enhance and support reading comprehension. This goal spans across the grade levels and different disciplines and is supported by a plethora of research.
Janis Harmon, Karen Wood
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Focus on forms (FonFs) is a pedagogical approach in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) that emphasizes students’ conscious and direct attention to learning target language features in isolation and outside their meaningful context.
Ismail Xodabande, Tahereh Boroughani
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Неофилология, 2019 We consider the academic explanatory dictionaries of the Russian language (RL) as the basis of academic (automated, archival) vocabulary (systematic) corpus (concordance, tuple, compendium) (AVC) [1–6] of the Russian language, as well as the algorithm ...
S. V. Lesnikov
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