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Relationship of Iranian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Depth with Their Writing Vocabulary Use, Fluency, and Organization

Journal of Contemporary Language Research, 2023
Introduction: Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in investigating L2 English productive and receptive vocabulary knowledge in writing. Previous inquiries focused heavily on the pedagogical effects of teaching vocabulary on writing. A less investigated area is learners’ lexical competence involvement in the complicated writing process ...
Shirin Kamali Khalavi, Mitra Zeraatpishe
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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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Breadth and Depth-Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension in an English First Additional Language Context

Journal of Languages and Language Teaching, 2022
Most research has been concerned predominantly with vocabulary breadth in comparison with vocabulary depth. This study aims to bridge this gap by answering the following question: How do scores on vocabulary size, depth of vocabulary knowledge and ...
Kufakunesu Zano
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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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The Relationship Between Depth of Academic English Vocabulary Knowledge and Academic Success of Second Language University Students

SAGE Open, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students.
Morad Alsahafi
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The Effect of Vocabulary Size and Vocabulary Depth on Reading in EFL Context

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2015
AbstractThe aim of this study is to determine the effects of vocabulary size and vocabulary depth on reading performance in EFL context. To this end, Vocabulary Size Test by Nation and Beglar (2007), Words Associate Test by Read (1998), and a reading performance test, the reliability of which was found to be .81 were administered to 361 university ...
Şen, Yusuf, Kuleli, Mesut
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The Effect of Using the MoodleReader Module on Iranian EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Depth and Breadth [PDF]

Journal of Modern Research in English Language Studies, 2019
The present study investigated the effects of using the MoodleReader Module on Iranian EFL learners’ vocabulary depth and breadth. The participants of this study, chosen based on their availability, were 30 male and female Iranian EFL learners attending ...
Saeed Mehrpour, Zahra Montasseri
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Depth of vocabulary knowledge in dominant bilingual children with different language profiles: The impact of vocabulary size and verbal working memory

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, Siskou Grammatia, Dourou Chrysoula   +2 more
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The contribution of vocabulary breadth and depth to narrative writing ability: A partial least squares structural equation modelling approach

Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics
Despite the well-established role of lexis in proficiency in the four skills, a great deal of research has focused on the importance of vocabulary breadth and depth in reading.
Abdelaziz Agrram, Najat Mokhtari, Daouia Laaboudi   +2 more
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Analytic relations versus syntagmatic and paradigmatic relations of vocabulary depth knowledge: Their correlation and prediction to academic reading comprehension of EFL learners

Open Linguistics, 2020
The aims of the study were to examine the correlation and prediction of different dimensions of vocabulary depth knowledge to academic reading comprehension.
Hasan Md Kamrul, Rahman Mohammad Mosiur
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