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Applying GSH to a Wide Range of Experiments in Granular Media [PDF]
, 2014 Granular solid hydrodynamics (GSH) is a continuum-mechanical theory for granular media, the range of which is shown in this paper. Simple, frequently analytic solutions are related to classic observations at different shear rates, including: (i)~static ...
Jiang, Yimin, Liu, Mario
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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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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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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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SAGE Open, 2020 This study examined the simultaneous effects of L2 individual difference (ID) variables (aptitude, motivation, strategy use, language processing experience, and gender) on English as a foreign language (EFL) breadth and depth of L2 vocabulary knowledge ...
Sunjung Lee
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Getting creative in the languages classroom [PDF]
, 2020 The following principles are central to the work of ‘Linguistic Creativity in Language Learning’, a research strand of Creative Multilingualism: We create language every day. Language diversity facilitates creative diversity.
Fisher, Linda +3 more
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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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What affects second language vocabulary learning? Evidence from multivariate analysis
Frontiers in Education, 2023 IntroductionVocabulary acquisition is crucial in second language (L2) learning and can be affected by multi-variables. The fact that all these variables have typically been investigated separately (or, at best, in pairs) potentially obscures important ...
Danning Sun, Zihan Chen, Shanhua Zhu
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Disentangling accent from comprehensibility [PDF]
, 2012 The goal of this study was to determine which linguistic aspects of second language speech are related to accent and which to comprehensibility. To address this goal, 19 different speech measures in the oral productions of 40 native French speakers of ...
Isaacs, Talia, Trofimovich, P
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 In this study, we ascertain the links between the four dimensions of L2 vocabulary knowledge and L2 reading proficiency and the moderating effects of vocabulary fluency.
Yanli Tong +2 more
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