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Rater judgments and word difficulty: Conceptualizing the substantive validity of the VST

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2022
The substantive component of construct validity requires a confrontation between empirical test results and content relevance. The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) has been extensively validated in terms of empirical results.
Derek N. Canning, Stuart McLean, Joseph P. Vitta   +2 more
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Some trends in vocabulary research: A discussion of three papers presented at the JALT Vocabulary SIG

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2022
The Japanese context is a particularly rich area for a wide range of vocabulary research. I was therefore quite honored (and humbled) to be asked to serve as one of the discussants for the 2022 JALT Vocabulary SIG.
Kristopher Kyle
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Lexical Sophistication as a Multidimensional Phenomenon: Relations to Second Language Lexical Proficiency, Development, and Writing Quality

The Modern Language Journal, 2017
AbstractThis study conceptualizes lexical sophistication as a multidimensional phenomenon by reducing numerous lexical features of lexical sophistication into 12 aggregated components (i.e., dimensions) via a principal component analysis approach. These components were then used to predict second language (L2) writing proficiency levels, holistic ...
KIM, MINKYUNG, Crossley, Scott Andrew, KYLE, KRISTOPHER   +2 more
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Applying lexical sophistication models to wordlist development: A proof-of-concept study

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics
Young Ae Kim, Joseph P Vitta, Stuart Mclean   +2 more
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Using Learner Corpora to Inform Material Development and Classroom Practices

Babylonia
This article examines how a university in Japan uses a longitudinal learner corpus to bridge the gap between research and classroom practice in a two-year English for Academic Purposes (EAP) program.
Gavin Brooks
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Lexical Diversity and Lexical Sophistication in Spoken Language Samples of Bilingual Children [PDF]

, 2019
Analizom jezičnih uzoraka može se procijeniti rječnik govornika nekog jezika. Uobičajeno se nadređeni pojam rječničkog bogatstva upotrebljava kao krovni pojam za mjerenje leksičke gustoće, leksičke raznolikosti te leksičke sofisticiranosti (Malvern et al. 2004).
Dobravac, Gordana, Olujić Tomazin, Marina, Hržica, Gordana   +2 more
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Lexical richness viewed through lexical diversity, density, and sophistication

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities
Abstract Recognizing vocabulary as the essential language foundation and determining its richness continues to be a challenge in quantitative linguistics. This issue has also been widely applied in various practical contexts, including language acquisition, language change, psychology, and cognitive science.
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Lexical richness in the speech of Mandarin Chinese for L2 learners

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
While there has been some exploration into the lexical richness of Chinese writing, there is still a dearth of oral research. Previous extensive studies on the lexical richness of English learners have found a large difference between written and spoken ...
Yuxin Hao, Jiayu Lin, Qihao Yang, Haitao Liu   +3 more
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Die Entwicklung von produktiven lexikalischen Kompetenzen bei Schüler(innen) mit portugiesischem Migrationshintergrund in der Schweiz

Zeitschrift für Interkulturellen Fremdsprachenunterricht, 2018
In diesem Aufsatz diskutieren wir Resultate einer Längsschnittstudie zu literalen Kompetenzen von 8- bis 10-jährigen Grundschulschüler(innen) mit portugiesischem Migrationshintergrund.
Amelia Lambelet, Audrey Bonvin, Jan Vanhove, Raphael Berthele   +3 more
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Fluency and complexity as coupled growers in speaking English at secondary school – A case study of a good, average, and poor language learner

LingBaW, 2020
One of the main assumptions of Complex Dynamic Systems Theory (CDST) is that internally complex language subsystems develop non-linearly while entering different kinds of supportive, competitive, conditional, or dual relationships which are ...
Katarzyna Joanna Rokoszewska
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