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What does implication mean? An exploration of undergraduates’ vocabulary size and academic achievement [PDF]

open access: yesEducational 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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Consciousness raising in foreign language vocabulary learning and reading [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
This study on consciousness raising in foreign language vocabulary learning and reading took place in a reading comprehension course for university students in Finland. The aim was to find out what kind of changes in vocabulary and reading strategies and
Lehtonen, T.H., Lehtonen, Tuula Hannele
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Matthew effects in young readers : reading comprehension and reading experience aid vocabulary development [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The authors report data from a longitudinal study of the reading development of children who were assessed in the years of their 8th, 11th, 14th, and 16th birthdays.
Oakhill, Jane, Cain, Kate
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An exploration of undergraduates’ vocabulary size, academic word usage and academic achievement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
The aim of this research was to explore undergraduates’ receptive and productive knowledge of vocabulary and how these relate to academic achievement in order to improve educational outcomes for students. The research was divided into two phases.
Marshall, J.
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ANALYZING VOCABULARY LEVEL OF THE STUDENTS’ ESSAY WRITING AND ACADEMIC TEXTBOOK UTILIZING LEXTUTOR

open access: yesEternal (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

open access: yesIbérica, 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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The Vocabulary-Comprehension Relationship across the Disciplines: Implications for Instruction

open access: yesEducation 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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What Predicts Academic Achievement in EMI Courses? Focus on Vocabulary Knowledge and Self-Perceptions of L2 Skills

open access: yesSAGE 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 concept of developing and creating a digital academic vocabulary corpus (AVC) of the Russian language (RL)

open access: yesНеофилология, 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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Exploring Vocabulary Knowledge as a Strategy to Enhance English First Additional Language in the Post-COVID -19 Era

open access: yesE-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2022
This paper investigated how vocabulary knowledge is an essential variable for academic achievement during the post-COVID-19 era in Grade 10 learners.
Siphokazi Ngqeleni   +1 more
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