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Language Testing in Asia, 2021 The article presents an empirical study that investigates the single- and cross-modality relationships between different dimensions of receptive vocabulary knowledge and language skills, as well as the importance of academic vocabulary knowledge in ...
Hung Tan Ha
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Academic Vocabulary in Applied Linguistics Research Articles: A Corpus-based Study
Journal of Language and Education, 2022 Background: Generally operationalized as the words used more frequently in academic discourse for describing abstract ideas and processes, academic vocabulary poses a major learning burden for native and non-native speakers of English.
Ismail Xodabande +3 more
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Contrastive Form-Focused Instruction in Improving Vocabulary [PDF]
, 2023 The present study investigated the effectiveness of contrastive form-focused instruction (CFFI) in improving the vocabulary skills of grade 11 public school senior high school students from the general academic strand.
Darwin Z. Reyes
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JPAIR Institutional Research Journal, 2023 Proficiency in the English language comprises a wide range of skills, including listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Among these skills, reading comprehension holds particular importance as it enables students to effectively process and understand ...
Harieth Cawagdan-Cuarto +3 more
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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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Is core vocabulary a friend or foe of academic writing? Single-word vs multi-word uses of THING [PDF]
, 2021 Core vocabulary items (e.g. thing, way) are often viewed as the enemy of effective academic writing, and style guides and textbooks often advise against using them.
Larsson, Tove +2 more
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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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Developing a New Academic Vocabulary Test [PDF]
, 2019 Despite the central role of vocabulary in language learning, and the increasing interest in academic vocabulary, materials for testing academic vocabulary are not common. This paper reports on the development of a new test of academic vocabulary.
Malmström, Hans, +5 more
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Matthew effects in young readers : reading comprehension and reading experience aid vocabulary development [PDF]
, 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.
Kate Cain +5 more
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