Productive Vocabulary Knowledge of ESL Learners
Asian Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, 2018 The paper seeks to investigate the level of productive knowledge of ESL learners, the writing quality and the relationship between the vocabulary knowledge and the writing quality. 150 final year students of English language in a university in Nigeria were randomly selected as respondents.
Abdulmalik Usman, Dahiru Musa Abdullahi
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Effects of morphological intervention on multiple aspects of academic vocabulary knowledge
Acta Psychologica, 2023 Despite the positive role of English morphology in word learning, the existing evidence is mainly on young L1 native speakers' receptive word gains.
Xin Yuan, Xuan Tang
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Making Sense of Learner Performance on Tests of Productive Vocabulary Knowledge [PDF]
TESOL Quarterly, 2017 This article offers a solution to a significant problem for teachers and researchers of language learning that confounds their interpretations and expectations of test data: The apparent simplicity of tests of vocabulary knowledge masks the complexity of the constructs they claim to measure.
Fitzpatrick, Tess, Clenton, Jon
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Metalinguistic awareness in L2 vocabulary acquisition : which factors influence learners’ motivations of form-meaning connections? [PDF]
, 2017 Research has shown that prompting learners to elaborate on the appropriateness of form-meaning links can be an efficient vocabulary learning exercise (Deconinck, Boers & Eyckmans, 2017).
Candry, Sarah +2 more
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International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 2016 This paper discusses the role of vocabulary knowledge on the writing performance of the Arabic language which known as a foreign language in the Malaysian education system. It also discussed the role of each part of vocabulary knowledge which namely receptive vocabulary knowledge and productive vocabulary knowledge.
Zunita Mohamad Maskor, Harun Baharudin
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The Language Laboratory and Teaching English at the College Level in Japan [PDF]
, 1979 A recommendation made by the Central Council on Education inJapan states that in foreign language education the main concentrationshould be placed on the development of practical abilities.
Ikenra, Sadahiko +2 more
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The dimensional approach to vocabulary testing: What can we learn from past and present practices?
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2014 Vocabulary constitutes an important component of language and its study has attracted the interest of second-language (L2) and foreign-language (FL) teachers and applied language researchers, booming in the 1990s (cf. for example Ellis 1992, Read 2000).
Nizonkiza, Déogratias +1 more
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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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Probing the depths: Can both size and depth of productive vocabulary predict academic performance?
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2019 This study investigates the link between breadth (or size) and depth of vocabulary knowledge, and the relationship between the latter and academic proficiency.
Scheepers, Ruth Angela
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Learning English vocabulary from word cards: A research synthesis
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Researchers' interest in the learning of vocabulary from word cards has grown alongside the increasing number of studies published on this topic.
Yuanying Lei +2 more
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