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The Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Size and Lexical Coverage of the Text: The Case of Narrative and Argumentative Genres [PDF]
Journal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 2017 This study explored the relationship between EFL learners’ vocabulary size, lexical coverage of the text and reading comprehension texts (narrative & argumentative genres).
Nader Assadi Aidinlou +1 more
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The Bare Necessities: Increasing Lexical Coverage for Multi-Word Domain Terms with Less Lexical Data [PDF]
Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Multiword Expressions, 2015 We argue that many multi-word domain terms are not (and should not be regarded as) strictly atomic, especially from a parser’s point of view. We introduce the notion of Lexical Kernel Units (LKUs), and discuss some of their essential properties. LKUs are building blocks for lexicalizations of domain concepts, and as such, can be used for compositional ...
Branimir Boguraev +2 more
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The issue of translating English psychological terms into [PDF]
Современная зарубежная психология, 2018 The psychological terminological system of the Russian language is rapidly developing, being constantly enriched with new lexical units due to borrowing from other languages.
Balygina E.A., Ermolova T.V.
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Lexical Aspects of Russian Bible Translations
Научный диалог, 2021 The article is devoted to the study of the lexical aspects of Russian Bible translations of the 19th—21st centuries in comparative coverage and is a continuation of a study pre-viously conducted by reference to English Bibles.
G. A. Kazakov
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Reading in a Foreign Language, 2010 We explore the relationship between second language (L2) learners’ vocabulary size, lexical text coverage that their vocabulary provides and their reading comprehension. We also conceptualize “adequate reading comprehension” and look for the lexical threshold for such reading in terms of coverage and vocabulary size. Vocabulary size was measured by the
Laufer, Batia +1 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 This study aims to examine the differences in lexical priming features between Confucius Institutes and Goethe-Instituts in developing countries using lexical priming theory and natural language processing techniques.
Ming Huang
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Academic lexical coverage in TED talks and academic lectures
English for Specific Purposes, 2022 Abstract The coverage of academic lexis is compared in a TED talk corpus (2,483 talks, 5,068,781 words) and a corpus of Yale University lectures (708 lectures, 5,523,791 words). Academic lexis is defined by the Academic Word List (Coxhead, 2000), the Academic Vocabulary List (Gardner & Davies, 2014), and the Academic Spoken Word List (Dang et al ...
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Swords: A Benchmark for Lexical Substitution with Improved Data Coverage and Quality [PDF]
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2021 We release a new benchmark for lexical substitution, the task of finding appropriate substitutes for a target word in a context. To assist humans with writing, lexical substitution systems can suggest words that humans cannot easily think of. However, existing benchmarks depend on human recall as the only source of data, and therefore lack coverage of ...
Lee, Mina +4 more
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014 The main goal of the present study is to answer the question of whether the lexical level of the reading section of the TOEFL Internet-based Test (TOEFL iBT) is beyond the vocabulary level of Japanese senior high school graduates.
Masaya Kaneko
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A corpus-based lexical analysis of subject-specific university textbooks for English majors
Ampersand, 2015 This study is a corpus-based lexical analysis of subject-specific university textbooks which purports to explore lexical text coverage and frequency distribution of words from the Academic Word List and the British National Corpus frequency-based word ...
Konul Hajiyeva
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