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The relationship between receptive and productive vocabulary of Slavic EFL learners
Topics in Linguistics, 2016 This study investigates the relationship between learners’ receptive vocabulary knowledge as measured by the Vocabulary Size Test (Nation and Beglar, 2007) and free productive vocabulary knowledge as demonstrated by the learners when writing a short ...
Šišková Zdislava
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MORPHOLOGICAL AND LEXICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF VESNA PARUN’S POETIC DISCOURSE [PDF]
Hum, 2018 Lexical richness and expressive peculiarity are connected to Vesna Parun’s poetics (1922-2010) from the very beginning of her poetic opus. In analyzing a part of her poetic opus this paper is focused on the lexical component.
Marijana Bašić, Sanja Baričević
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Language and Literacy: A Canadian Educational e-journal, 2017 This article reports on an investigation of vocabulary thresholds across four standards of writing quality for grade 3 children. An expository prompt was used to elicit first draft writing from 222 students. A quota sampling strategy was used to create a
Hetty Roessingh +2 more
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The Vocabulary Richness of Children’s Television in Ireland: A Cross-generational Comparison
Teanga: The Journal of the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2018 This research investigates whether the vocabulary richness of children’s programming has changed over one generation, and therefore compares the programmes offered in 1992 to those offered in 2017. Three hours of programming were sourced, transcribed and
Anna Ceroni +2 more
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Evaluating short-term changes in L2 complexity development
Círculo de Lingüística Aplicada a la Comunicación, 2015 This paper reports on a study on the nature and extent of the development of English L2 writing proficiency of 45 adult ESL learners over the time of an intensive short-term EAP program as evaluated by means of objective measures targeting different ...
Bram Bulté, Alex Housen
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Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2022 Building on previous studies investigating the multidimensional nature of lexical use in task-based L2 performance, this study clarified the roles that the distinct lexical features play in predicting vocabulary proficiency in a corpus of L2 Oral ...
Masaki Eguchi
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Building a Rich Large-scale Lexical Base for Generation
, 1997 Most large lexical resources have been developed with language interpretation in mind and can not be used directly for generation. we present a rich large-scale lexical base for generation, constructed by merging various linguistic resources. Our approach meets the needs of language generation systems by providing the facilities for mapping from ...
Jing, Hongyan +2 more
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Lexical richness and language mastery: a correlation
Journal of Language and Linguistics in SocietyThis study explores how lexical richness relates to language mastery. It focuses on how vocabulary range and depth affect learners’ proficiency and expressive skills. Lexical richness reflects the variety and quality of vocabulary used. It is a key marker of language ability.
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A diachronic approach to scientific lexicon in English: Evidence from Late Modern English corpora
Revista de Lenguas para Fines Específicos, 2015 This research focuses on the Corpus of English Texts on Astronomy (CETA), the first sub-corpus of CC, presenting a diachronic approach to astronomy specific lexicon found in texts from 1710 to 1920.
Pascual Cantos +2 more
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The role of syntactic and lexical complexity in undergraduate writing quality
IbéricaThis study explores the L2 production of university students enrolled in an English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) course, by means of the analysis of the complexity of their academic writing performance.
Ana Cristina Lahuerta Martínez
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