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Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading

Academic Therapy, 1989
The most effective vocabulary instruction approaches are those that involve semantic elaboration and semantic fit; some examples are included in this article.
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Vocabulary acquisition: acquiring depth of knowledge through network building

International Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2000
Lexical progression involves a process of network building whereby learners acquire depth of lexical knowledge. This includes the knowledge of a word's different sense relations, paradigmatic as well as syntagmatic, to other words. The focus of this article is a longitudinal study of young foreign language learners’acquisition of English adjectives.
Henriksen, Birgit, Haastrup, Kirsten
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Examining the Acquisition of Vocabulary Knowledge Depth Among Preschool Students

Reading Research Quarterly, 2015
Well-developed lexical representations are important for reading comprehension, but there have been no prior attempts to track growth in the depth of knowledge of particular words. This article examines increases in depth of vocabulary knowledge in 4–5-year-old preschool students (n = 240) who participated in a vocabulary intervention that taught words
Elizabeth B. Hadley, David K. Dickinson, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kimberly T. Nesbitt   +4 more
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Assessing Second Language Vocabulary Knowledge: Depth Versus Breadth

The Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Most research on the acquisition of second language vocabulary has depended on estimates of vocabulary size, or 'breadth' measures, rather than on estimates of 'depth' defined either in terms of kinds of knowledge of specific words or in terms of degrees of such knowledge.
Marjorie Wesche, T. Sima Paribakht
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Validating a Test to Measure Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

2013
This study is a contribution to the ongoing validation of the word associates format, a selected-response type of test item devised by the author to measure depth of vocabulary knowledge (i.e., the extent to which learners are familiar with the range of meaning and uses of a set of target words).
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Depth of vocabulary knowledge of MA students of Chinese studies

2020
This study investigates the depth of vocabulary knowledge of MA students of Chinese Studies at the University of Vienna. In particular, the focus lies on these learners’ identification of one specific type of word association, namely collocations. This study also examines how target word frequency, as well as other factors (e.g.
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Evaluation of an in-depth vocabulary knowledge measure for assessing reading performance

Language Testing, 2004
The central purpose of this study was to empirically evaluate an in-depth vocabulary knowledge measure in the context of developing the new TOEFL test. The study was carried out with a sample of 207 international students attending an intensive English as a second language (ESL) program in a major Canadian university, in order to determine whether ...
David D. Qian, Mary Schedl
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Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge in Preschool Children

Word of Mouth, 2017
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Different aspects of vocabulary depth knowledge in L2 Chinese reading comprehension: Comparing higher‐ and lower‐proficiency readers

Foreign Language Annals, 2023
Tianxu Chen
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Innovation in Measures of Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

2021
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