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Vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size: Insights from educational level and learner styles

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2018
This study investigates the effect of different vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) as well as different learner styles on vocabulary size in Saudi Arabic-speaking students in higher education.
Alaa Alahmadi   +2 more
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A reconsideration of the construct of "a vocabulary for Japanese learners of English": A critical comparison of the JACET wordlists and new general service lists

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2019
By comparing the vocabularies included in the Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET) wordlists (1993, 2003, and 2016 editions) and recently released New General Service Lists (Brezina & Gablasova, 2013, Browne, 2013), we tried to identify
Shin’ichiro Ishikawa
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An examination of the new general service list

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2018
The New General Service List (NGSL, Browne, Culligan, & Phillips, 2013b) was published on an interim basis in 2013 as a modern replacement for West’s (1953) original General Service List (GSL).
Tim Stoeckel
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The SAC as a Community of Practice: A Case Study of Peer-Run Conversation Sessions at the Universidad del Caribe

open access: yesStudies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2016
The present article describes how the development of the ‘conversation sessions’ in the self-access centre (SAC) fostered a Community of Practice (CoP) as theorised by Lave & Wenger (1991).
Elvira del Carmen Acuña González   +2 more
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Vocabulary instruction and learning: A commentary on four studies

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2019
Four papers were presented by Shusaku Kida, Magda Kitano and Katsuhiro Chiba, Tim Stoeckel, and Raymond Stubbe. In this article, my thoughts about the issues raised in these thought-provoking papers about vocabulary resource processing allocation and ...
Jenifer Larson-Hall
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The Relationship between Learners’ Self-directed Learning Readiness and their English for Specific Purposes Course Accomplishment at Distance Education in Iran

open access: yesStudies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2013
The major role of self-directed learning, a sub-division of autonomy, in successful learning at distance education has been informed by various studies. Although learners pass General English courses before studying any ESP courses at distance education ...
Parinaz Mohammadi, Seyed Mahdi Araghi
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A Two Year Cross-Section of Student Use of Self-Access eLearning

open access: yesStudies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2011
Over a two year period of using a Moodle based self-access resource, student logins were measured against student numbers in schools in order to evaluate the percentage of students’ usage.
Richard S. Pinner
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Ongoing Development: Pathways and Challenges

open access: yesStudies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2014
Since 2011, the Learning Advisors (LAs) at the Self Access Learning Centre (SALC) at Kanda University of International Studies (KUIS) have been engaged in a curriculum evaluation and modification project.
Elizabeth Lammons
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Writing Centers: Who are they for? What are they for?

open access: yesStudies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2013
The focus of this paper is the writing center: its users as well as its function within a given context. Four semesters of data were examined for the purpose of identifying trends in writing center usage and assessing how these have fulfilled the stated ...
Elton LaClare, Tracy Franz
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Room 101: The Social SAC

open access: yesStudies in Self-Access Learning Journal, 2014
This column looks at the SAC at the University of Bradford (UoB), which is commonly known as Room 101. The column looks at how Room 101 has reacted to the problem of reduced usage as a result of the cancellation of foreign language courses at the UoB ...
Michael Allhouse
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