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Vocabulary growth at tertiary level: How much progress can Serbian EFL learners make in a year? [PDF]

Zbornik Instituta za pedagoška istraživanja, 2014
The size of L2 learners’ vocabulary, both receptive and productive, represents a vital concept in the field of L2 acquisition, given that it determines the degree of success in communication.
Danilović Jelena R., Grujić Tatjana S.
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Mobile-assisted focus on forms in English for academic purposes instruction: Investigating the impacts on learning academic words

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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Vocabulary size influences spontaneous speech in native language users: Validating the use of automatic speech recognition in individual differences research

, 2020
Previous research has shown that vocabulary size affects performance on laboratory word production tasks. Individuals who know many words show faster lexical access and retrieve more words belonging to pre-specified categories than individuals who know ...
Hintz, F., Jongman, S., Khoe, Y.
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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, Deconinck, Julie, Eyckmans, June   +2 more
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A Psycholinguistic Look at the Role of Field Dependence/Independence in Receptive/Productive Vocabulary Knowledge: Does it Draw a Line?

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
The thrust of this study was to investigate the impact of learning styles in general and Field dependence/Independence (FD/I) in particular on the receptive/productive lexical performance of language learners.
K. Heidari
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Risk factors for low receptive vocabulary abilities in the preschool and early school years in the longitudinal study of Australian children.

PLoS ONE, 2014
Receptive vocabulary development is a component of the human language system that emerges in the first year of life and is characterised by onward expansion throughout life.
Daniel Christensen, Stephen R Zubrick, David Lawrence, Francis Mitrou, Catherine L Taylor   +4 more
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Associated reading skills in children with a history of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) [PDF]

, 2006
A large cohort of 200 eleven-year-old children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) were assessed on basic reading accuracy and on reading comprehension as well as language tasks.
B. Brinton, B. G. Tabachnick, B. Hohnen, B. Wilson, C. D. Elliot, C. Renfrew, D. V. M. Bishop, D. V. M. Bishop, D. V. M. Bishop, D. V. M. Bishop, D. V. M. Bishop, D. Wechsler, D. Wechsler, G. Conti-Ramsden, G. Conti-Ramsden, G. Conti-Ramsden, G. Conti-Ramsden, G. Conti-Ramsden, G. Conti-Ramsden, G. M. McArthur, H. Catts, H. Catts, H. Catts, H. S. Scarborough, I-CAN, J. C. Raven, J. Carroll, J. M. Sattler, J. V. Oakhill, K. Cain, K. Cain, K. Nation, K. Williams, L. Dunn, M. F. Joanisse, M. Snowling, N. Botting, N. Botting, N. Richman, P. A. Silva, P. B. Gough, P. Tallal, P. Tallal, R. Goldman, R. Hick, S. A. Stahl, S. E. Stothard, U. Goswami, V. A. Marchman, Z. Simkin   +49 more
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A Spanish Sign Language (LSE) Adaptation of the Communicative Development Inventories [PDF]

, 2020
This article presents the adaptation of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (CDI; Fenson et al., 1993, 1994) to Spanish Sign Language (LSE). Data were collected from 55 participants (32 boys and 23 girls; 17 deaf signers, 38 hearing signers)
Cantillo, Coral, Díez, María Aránzazu, Montero, Ignacio, Moreno Pérez, Francisco Javier, Pardo-Guijarro, María Jesús, Pérez, Mar, Rodríguez Ortiz, Isabel de los Reyes, Saldaña Sage, David, Valmaseda, Marian   +8 more
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Input Modality and Working Memory Capacity : Effects on the Acquisition of Receptive and Productive Vocabulary Knowledge

The Journal of AsiaTEFL, 2021
Research on relationships between textual and textual-plus-pictorial gloss types and working memory capacity has been limited at best. This study examined the degree to which these two gloss types and working memory capacity (WMC), assessed through a ...
A. Ansarin, Yaser Hadidi, Salva Kazemipour Khabbazi   +2 more
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Vocabulary acquisition (incidental) through watching subtitled video material

ELT Forum: Journal of English Language Teaching, 2019
Subtitle refers to the time-synchronized text on a video that translates the spoken audio to another language. This research deals with the effect of watching subtitled video material on the vocabulary acquisition (incidental) of the Filipino learners of
Alvin Salazar Rosales
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