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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 This study examines the relative contribution of vocabulary breadth (VB) and vocabulary depth (VD) to three different listening comprehension measures. One hundred and thirteen English majors were given VB and VD tests, and three listening comprehension ...
Yuzhi Luo +9 more
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Success in learning similar-sounding words predicts vocabulary depth above and beyond vocabulary breadth [PDF]
Journal of Child Language, 2018 AbstractIn lexical development, the specificity of phonological representations is important. The ability to build phonologically specific lexical representations predicts the number of words a child knows (vocabulary breadth), but it is not clear if it also fosters how well words are known (vocabulary depth).
van Goch, M.M. +2 more
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Psychology of Language and Communication, 2023 The current study investigated the depth of vocabulary knowledge (VK) through word definitions, examining the effect of word characteristics, breadth of VK, and verbal working memory (VWM). Forty children (11-12 years old) participated (12 Greek-Albanian
Dosi Ifigeneia +2 more
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The Effects of Three Methods of Morphological Awareness on Iranian Intermediate EFL Learners’ Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge [PDF]
Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2019 Morphological awareness is currently receiving an increasing amount of attention in the literature on second language learning. This study investigated the effect of three methods of morphological awareness (i.e.
Behnam Ghasemi, Mehdi Vaez-Dalili
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The Effect of Text Messaging on EFL Learners' Lexical Depth and Breadth
Journal of Language and Education, 2021 Using technology in the classroom context can be an effective way to learn a foreign or second language. Vocabulary is considered one of the important skills for identifying a learner's performance in various academic and non-academic contexts.
Behnam Behforouz, Anca Daniela Frumuselu
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What’s in a Bot? L2 Lexical Development Mediated Through ICALL [PDF]
, 2014 In recent years, the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA) has made great strides to refocus its attention on the essential role that vocabulary plays in becoming a proficient L2 learner (Nation, 2001). Moreover, Computer Assisted Language Learning (
Arispe, Kelly
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Introduction: Research in recent years has explored the vocabulary size (lexical breadth) of bilingual children, but less is known about the richness of bilingual word knowledge (lexical depth), and about how knowledge of words in the two languages ...
Minna Lipner +5 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 This study explored how reading motivation, self-regulated reading strategies and English vocabulary knowledge influenced students’ English reading comprehension simultaneously in one model.
Hong Li, Zhengdong Gan
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Deciding first-order properties of nowhere dense graphs [PDF]
, 2014 Nowhere dense graph classes, introduced by Nesetril and Ossona de Mendez, form a large variety of classes of "sparse graphs" including the class of planar graphs, actually all classes with excluded minors, and also bounded degree graphs and graph classes
Courcelle B. +4 more
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The role of vocabulary knowledge on inference generation: A meta-analysis
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2021 Successful text comprehension results in a coherent mental model of the situation being described. To achieve this, the reader has to infer certain information by connecting parts of the text to their prior knowledge.
Sterpin Lucas Federico +3 more
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