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Children’s expressive and receptive knowledge of the English regular plural. [PDF]
Developmental Psychology, 2023 We investigate how children form early grammatical generalizations using the test case of the English regular plural. While some previous research provides evidence that children apply abstract rules to produce novel plurals well before 24mo., other studies have revealed that children use plural forms inconsistently with familiar and novel nouns, and ...
Stephan Meylan +2 more
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Language Testing in Asia, 2021 The article presents an empirical study that investigates the single- and cross-modality relationships between different dimensions of receptive vocabulary knowledge and language skills, as well as the importance of academic vocabulary knowledge in ...
Hung Tan Ha
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Examining Turkish ESL Learners’ Receptive Collocational Knowledge
Gaziantep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, 2018 Native speakers have extensive knowledge of how words combine in their language. This knowledge and systematic use of the combinations is considered an important element of native speaker competence. In the linguistics literature, ‘formulaic speech’ or
Gamze ALMACIOĞLU
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Static infographics effects on the receptive knowledge of idiomatic expressions
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2020 Idiomatic expressions are essential components of EFL learners’ linguistic repertoire. Nevertheless, learning such inherently perplexing language constructs poses a challenge to learners.
Assim S. Alrajhi
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An Eye-Tracking Study of Receptive Verb Knowledge in Toddlers [PDF]
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018 PurposeWe examined receptive verb knowledge in 22- to 24-month-old toddlers with a dynamic video eye-tracking test. The primary goal of the study was to examine the utility of eye-gaze measures that are commonly used to study noun knowledge for studying verb knowledge.MethodForty typically developing toddlers participated.
Matthew James, Valleau +4 more
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English language students’ productive and receptive knowledge of collocations
ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics), 2014 The importance of collocations in second language learning has been recognized in the past few decades. There have been numerous studies in L2 acquisition research that investigated how the knowledge and use of collocations at different levels of ...
Begagić Mirna
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Receptive vocabulary knowledge and motivation in CLIL and EFL
Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas, 2014 Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a widely researched approach to foreign language learning and teaching. One of the pillars of CLIL is the concept of motivation.
Almudena Fernández Fontecha
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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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SAGE Open, 2017 This study examined the effects of task types on English as a foreign language (EFL) learners’ receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge. To this end, 130 (70 female and 60 male) EFL learners were randomly assigned to one of six tasks of learning 30 ...
Maryam Tahmasbi +1 more
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The German Auditory and Image (GAudI) vocabulary test: A new German receptive vocabulary test and its relationships to other tests measuring linguistic experience. [PDF]
PLoS ONEHumans acquire word knowledge through producing and comprehending spoken and written language. Word learning continues into adulthood and knowledge accumulates across the lifespan. Therefore, receptive vocabulary size is often conceived of as a proxy for
Sandra Bethke +2 more
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