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Neuroscience ResearchSecond language learners and educators often believe that improving one’s listening ability hinges on acquiring an extensive vocabulary and engaging in thorough listening practice.
Takara Kenza Allal-Sumoto +2 more
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Leveraging Professional Wordlists for Productive Vocabulary Knowledge [PDF]
ESP Today, 2020 Productive knowledge of subject-specific vocabulary is essential for successful professional communication. This article puts forward the case for an innovative approach to course and materials design in English for Professional Purposes (EPP) that highlights the importance of careful analysis of the vocabulary of specific professional discourse.
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L2 Vocabulary Knowledge Across Modes of Production: A Pilot Study [PDF]
JALT Postconference Publication, 2021 The pilot study described in this paper builds on existing studies of lexical diversity to determine the extent to which learners’ L2 vocabulary proficiency affects the lexical diversity of the texts they produce across three modes of production. To do this, the researcher examined the relationship between first-year students’ (n = 17) L2 vocabulary ...
Gavin Brooks, Jennifer Jordan
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A Longitudinal Study of Swedish Upper Secondary School Students’ Vocabulary Development
NJES: Nordic Journal of English studies, 2023 The importance of vocabulary is stressed as a central aspect of language learning. The aim of this investigation1 was to study how lexical input from a textbook and use of individual vocabulary notebooks affected Swedish upper secondary school students’
Christian Holmberg Sjöling
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Productive vocabulary knowledge in L2 German: Which word-related variables matter?
System, 2023 Abstract: In vocabulary research, factors affecting second/foreign language (L2) receptive vocabulary have been investigated extensively. However, few studies have examined factors affecting productive knowledge (i.e., form recall), especially concerning Languages Other Than English (LOTEs). Moreover, not much is known about the influence of time on L2
Griet Boone, Vanessa De Wilde
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First-year university students’ receptive and productive use of academic vocabulary
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2016 The present study explores academic vocabulary knowledge, operationalised through the Academic Word List, among first-year higher education students. Both receptive and productive knowledge and the proportion between the two are examined.
Déogratias Nizonkiza
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Focus on forms (FonFs) is a pedagogical approach in Instructed Second Language Acquisition (ISLA) that emphasizes students’ conscious and direct attention to learning target language features in isolation and outside their meaningful context.
Ismail Xodabande, Tahereh Boroughani
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Progress in learning French vocabulary in a one-year advanced course at school [PDF]
, 2008 This article reports on vocabulary learning in French during Year 12 by 150 pupils in 15 English comprehensive schools. Vocabulary progress over two school terms was investigated in the context of learner strategy training that targeted listening and ...
Graham, Suzanne Jane +2 more
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Gender-based Differences in EFL Learners' Language Learning Strategies and Productive Vocabulary
Theory and Practice of Second Language Acquisition, 2021 Gender is a key factor in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), where its impact on language learning strategies (Aslan, 2009; Oxford & Nyikos, 1989; Sumarni & Rachmawaty, 2019) and productive vocabulary (Canga Alonso & Arribas García, 2014 ...
Alejandra Montero-SaizAja
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Helping learners engage with L2 words: the form-meaning fit [PDF]
, 2010 The pace at which new words are acquired is influenced by the degree of engagement with them on the part of the learner. Insights from Cognitive Linguistics into the non-arbitrary aspects of vocabulary can be turned into stimuli for such engagement.
Boers, Frank +2 more
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