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Assessing Vocabulary Breadth and Depth

Word of Mouth, 2023
C. Westby
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Cognitive-linguistic skills and vocabulary knowledge breadth and depth in children’s L1 Chinese and L2 English

Applied Psycholinguistics, 2023
This study examined the correlates of different aspects of vocabulary knowledge in L1 Chinese and L2 English in Hong Kong bilingual children (N = 481, age = 6–12 years old).
Dora Jue Pan, Mariko Nakayama, C. McBride, Zebedee Rui En Cheah, Mo Zheng, Charlie Cheuk Laam Yeung   +5 more
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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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Working Memory, Vocabulary Breadth and Depth in Reading Comprehension: A Study with Third Graders

Discourse Processes, 2022
In the current study, we investigated the role of vocabulary knowledge in the relation between working memory (WM) and reading comprehension, in a sample of 55 typically developing 8-year-old Italian children.
Caterina Artuso, P. Palladino
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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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The Impact of Vocabulary Depth and Breadth to the TOEFL Reading Subtest in IAIN Kediri

International Journal of Language Education, 2019
TOEFL has been provided as a standardized test to measure the English proficiency of non-native speakers. However, one thing should be considered that TOEFL is still a big challenge for non-native English learners, especially for EFL learners.
Moh. Khoirul Anam
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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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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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