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The Relationship Between Vocabulary Learning Strategies and Breadth and Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

The Modern Language Journal, 2015
This study investigated the relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary breadth and depth knowledge. One hundred and fifty first‐year university students in China took the Vocabulary Levels Test, a meaning recall task, and the Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge Test.
XIAN ZHANG, XIAOFEI LU
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Measuring depth of academic vocabulary knowledge

Language Teaching Research, 2022
In second language (L2) vocabulary studies there is continuing interest in tests of depth of vocabulary knowledge, measuring various aspects of word knowledge other than just the form–meaning link that is the focus of breadth (or size) tests. This study aimed to explore new formats that could be used as diagnostic tools for assessing depth of academic ...
John Read, Thi Ngoc Yen Dang
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Variations in Vocabulary Depth Among Second Language Learners with Comparable Vocabulary Breadths: An Empirical Investigation

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
The study investigated variation in the depth of vocabulary knowledge of L2 learners at the same vocabulary breadth and the learner-related factors affecting it. Two hundred and thirty-one EFL learners at high and low levels of vocabulary breadth (according to Vocabulary Level Tests) participated in the study.
Ting Sun, Hyunjeong Nam
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Vocabulary Tests and Depth of Meaning

The Journal of Educational Research, 1953
(1953). Vocabulary Tests and Depth of Meaning. The Journal of Educational Research: Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 181-190.
E. W. Dolch, Don Leeds
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The Role of Receptive/Orthographic Vocabulary, Productive/Orthographic Vocabulary, Productive/Phonological Vocabulary and Depth of Vocabulary in Predicting Reading-to-Write Performance

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
Vocabulary knowledge greatly affects writing performance (Stæhr in Lang Learn J 36:139-152, 2008; Johnson in Tesol J 7:700-715 2016), but little is known about the relative contribution of different dimensions of vocabulary knowledge to reading-to-write performance. The current study attempted to investigates the contribution of receptive/orthographic (
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Depth and breadth of vocabulary in two languages: Which vocabulary skills transfer?

Journal of Educational Psychology, 2002
In this study, the authors examined the relationship between paradigmatic and syntagmatic word knowledge. The authors used familiar concrete nouns administered in Spanish and English to 88 bilingual 4th and 5th graders. Students were tested on the ability to provide superordinates, communicatively adequate definitions, and rich object descriptions ...
Claudia Lucía Ordóñez, María S. Carlo, Catherine E. Snow, Barry McLaughlin   +3 more
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Measuring Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

2019
Depth of vocabulary knowledge is typically defined as how well a word is known. Thus, measuring depth of vocabulary knowledge should tell us how well test takers know words. The importance of knowing vocabulary deeply is based mainly on two ideas: (1) L2 learners have to know different aspects of word knowledge in order to fulfill communicative tasks ...
Akifumi Yanagisawa, Stuart Webb
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Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading

Academic Therapy, 1989
The most effective vocabulary instruction approaches are those that involve semantic elaboration and semantic fit; some examples are included in this article.
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