Mobile-assisted academic vocabulary learning with digital flashcards: Exploring the impacts on university students’ self-regulatory capacity [PDF]
With the global rise in international journals over the past decades, successful communication in science largely hinges upon developing competency in using English as the academic lingua franca.
Tahereh Boroughani +2 more
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This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students.
Morad Alsahafi
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University students’ academic vocabulary development through mobile-assisted learning: Exploring the impacts on receptive and productive knowledge [PDF]
This study explored the effectiveness of mobile-assisted vocabulary learning through digital flashcards on receptive and productive aspects of academic vocabulary knowledge among Iranian EFL university students.
Mahtab Mohammadi +3 more
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What does implication mean? An exploration of undergraduates’ vocabulary size and academic achievement [PDF]
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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In this research project, it is planned to construct an information retrieval set of academic dictionaries of the Russian language in the form of information retrieval academic vocabulary. Academic dictionaries of the Russian language is developed in the
Sergey V. Lesnikov +3 more
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Academic vocabulary in an English for Academic Purposes course [PDF]
Academic vocabulary instruction can be beneficial to students in EMI universities since academic vocabulary knowledge predicts performance in academic tasks. With the aim to inform EAP materials design, this study examines the occurrence and repetition of high-frequency academic vocabulary in the printed teaching materials used in a presessional EAP ...
Sophia Skoufaki, Bojana Petrić
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CLIL and academic vocabulary: a preliminary study of secondary-school learners’ academic vocabulary size [PDF]
Since their eruption in the European Educational Systems panorama, the use of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) approaches has widely spread all throughout Europe, resulting in a revolution in foreign language teaching approaches (Coyle, Hood, Marsh, 2010; Mehisto, Marsh & Frigols, 2008; Pérez Cañado, 2012; Ruiz de Zarobe &
Irene Castellano-Risco
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An exploration of undergraduates’ vocabulary size, academic word usage and academic achievement [PDF]
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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Explaining L2 learners’ listening comprehension: The role of aural vocabulary knowledge [PDF]
Vocabulary knowledge plays an important role in predicting L2 learners’ listening comprehension. Written vocabulary tests have long been used to measure L2 learners’ vocabulary knowledge in studies on listening comprehension, while a limited number of ...
Yun Wang
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This study investigates the idea that knowledge of specialist subject vocabulary can make a significant and measurable impact on academic performance, separate from and additional to the impact of general and academic vocabulary knowledge.
Ahmed Masrai +3 more
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