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Lexical Profile of Newspapers Revisited: A Corpus-Based Analysis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The present study analyzed the vocabulary profile of the News on the Web (NOW) corpus, which contained 12 billion words from online newspapers and magazines in 20 countries to determine the vocabulary knowledge needed to reasonably understand online ...
Hung Tan Ha
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How much vocabulary is needed for comprehension of video lectures in MOOCs: A corpus-based study
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Over the past years, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as new competitive advantages in the digital economy of higher education globally. Accordingly, an increasing number of individuals are attracted to these new learning environments for
Ismail Xodabande +2 more
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021 Four papers by Brandon Kramer, Tohru Matsuo, Aaron Sponseller, Young Ae Kim, Suzuka Nishiyama, and Stuart McLean, Stuart Benson and Naheen Madarbakus-Ring, Michael McGuire and Jennifer Larson-Hall, and Atsushi Mizumoto, Geoffrey Pinchbeck, and Stuart ...
David Beglar
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TEFLIN Journal, 2021 In this commentary, we begin with the discussion on a brief history of academic wordlists. Adopting a comparative perspective, then, the merits and demerits of the Academic Word List (AWL) (Coxhead, 2000) and its competing counterpart the Academic ...
Razieh Gholaminejad +1 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 The article presents a methodological update on the lexical profile of informal spoken English with the emphasis on movies, television programs, and soap operas. The study analyzed Mark Davies’s mega-corpora with data containing approximately 625 million
Hung Tan Ha
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Some proponents of higher education English as a medium of instruction (EMI) have suggested listening to English lectures provides students the opportunity to incidentally acquire unknown words. A case study was designed to examine this assumption. First,
Barry Lee Reynolds +3 more
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CAN TED TALK TRANSCRIPTS SERVE AS EXTENSIVE READING MATERIAL FOR MID-FREQUENCY VOCABULARY LEARNING?
TEFLIN Journal, 2020 Schmitt and Schmitt (2014) labeled the first 4000 to 9000 word families as mid-frequency words and stressed their importance based on Nation's (2006) estimate that for adequate comprehension of a variety of authentic texts, knowledge of the first 9000 ...
Wenhua Hsu
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Vocabulary Demands of the IELTS Listening Test: An In-Depth Analysis
SAGE Open, 2022 The article offers an in-depth lexical analysis of the listening sub-test of the famous International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The vocabulary profile of 239 listening transcripts from 60 IELTS official practice tests were analyzed.
Doan Hieu Phung, Hung Tan Ha
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionUniversities in non-Anglophone countries are increasingly implementing English as the medium of instruction (EMI) lectures. There seems to be an assumption that students’ performance on standardized English examinations can be equated with ...
Barry Lee Reynolds +3 more
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Assessing Lexical Semantic Regularities in Portuguese Word Embeddings.
International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence, 2021 Models of word embeddings are often assessed when solving syntactic and semantic analogies. Among the latter, we are interested in relations that one would find in lexical-semantic knowledge bases like WordNet, also covered by some analogy test sets for
Hugo Gonçalo Oliveira +2 more
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