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Testing Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge and Their Relationship with Vocabulary Size of EFL Students [PDF]

JET (Journal of English Teaching), 2021
Abstract   Testing the breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge is needed to see its effect on the vocabulary size of EFL students. The study aims to know at the relationship between the breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge and the vocabulary size of EFL students.
null Ismi Narulita Firda, null Intan Azkiyah, null Albiansyah   +2 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., Verhoeven, Ludo, McQueen, James   +2 more
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Beyond breadth of vocabulary: Vocabulary depth can also be impacted by school’s socioeconomic status

Journal of Child Language
Abstract This study investigates the impact of socio-economic status (SES) on children’s vocabulary, focusing on the distinction between vocabulary breadth (number of words known) and vocabulary depth (quality of word knowledge). It aims to determine whether SES affects both dimensions equally and whether the relationship between SES ...
Vargas Cuevas, Junior, Facon, Bruno, Javourey-Drevet, Ludivine, Casalis, Séverine   +3 more
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Reciprocal effects of vocabulary breadth, vocabulary depth, and reading comprehension: a cross-lagged panel analysis in Chinese-speaking EFL learners

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The importance of vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension is well-recognized, and its relationship with comprehension has been widely explored in previous studies.
Tuoxiong Wang, Haomin Zhang
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Breadth or Depth: The Role of Vocabulary Knowledge in Iranian EAP Students’ Reading Comprehension Performance [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014
Two main features of vocabulary knowledge, namely breadth and depth, have a fundamental role in vocabulary research. This research aimed to study the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension, and to investigate which feature of
Esmail Faghih, Faezeh Nemati
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The role of vocabulary breadth and depth in IELTS academic reading tests [PDF]

Reading in a Foreign Language, 2020
This study explored the role of vocabulary breadth and depth in second language learners’ performance in IELTS academic reading tests in China. Sixty-two Chinese learners of English as a foreign language completed a vocabulary size test, a vocabulary depth test, and an IELTS reading test. Results showed that vocabulary breadth and depth both correlated
Chen, Chen, Liu, Yongcan
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The Relationship between Depth and Breadth of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension among Iranian EFL Learners [PDF]

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2011
The current study is an attempt to investigate the particular role learners' vocabulary knowledge plays in their reading comprehension performance. It intends to determine whether breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are related to EFL learners ...
Saeed Mehrpour, Seyyed Ayatollah Razmjoo, Parvaneh Kian   +2 more
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Beyond Vocabulary Breadth: Homonym Knowledge and Reading Comprehension Among Multilingual Learners and English-Monolingual Elementary Students

Education Sciences
This study examined (a) the development of vocabulary breadth and vocabulary depth, operationalized as homonym knowledge, across one academic year (fall to spring) in Grades 1–4 for multilingual learners and English monolinguals and (b) the concurrent ...
Qizhen Deng, Ana Taboada Barber, Susan Lutz Klauda, Kelly B. Cartwright   +3 more
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Vocabulary depth and breadth: their role in preschoolers story comprehension

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Strasser, Katherine, del Rio, Francisca, Larrain, Antonia   +2 more
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Breadth of Emotion Vocabulary in Early Adolescence [PDF]

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2018
Studies of emotion vocabulary and understanding typically focus on early childhood. Yet, emotion abilities continue to develop into adolescence, making it an important and underinvestigated area of research. This study presents evidence that adolescents’ emotion vocabulary undergoes active development, becomes more broad and sophisticated, varies by ...
Bazhydai, Marina, Ivcevic, Zorana, Widen, Sherri, Brackett, Marc   +3 more
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