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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 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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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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The Effects of Vocabulary Breadth and Depth on English Reading

Applied Linguistics, 2014
This study explored the relationship between two dimensions of vocabulary knowledge, that is, breadth of vocabulary (the number of words known) and depth of vocabulary (the richness of word knowledge), and their effects on different aspects of English reading in Chinese high school students learning English as a second language.
Miao Li, John R. Kirby
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Entry point depth and online search using a controlled vocabulary

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1989
Cet article est une reponse a celui que Stevonius a publie dans JASIS en 1986 (P. 331-340) et qui posait plusieurs questions concernant l'effet du vocabulaire controle sur la performance d'un systeme de recherche. Pour preciser les relations entre les differents types de vocabulaire controle et l'efficacite d'une recherche, les resultats d'une ...
Bert R. Boyce, John P. McLain
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Developing an Integrated Diagnostic Test of Vocabulary Size and Depth

RELC Journal, 2009
■ Following growing interest in vocabulary acquisition, a number of researchers have proposed how learners' vocabulary knowledge can be measured both in terms of how many words they know (vocabulary size) and how well they know those words (depth of knowledge).
Tomoko Ishii, Norbert Schmitt
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Assessing Vocabulary Breadth and Depth

Word of Mouth, 2023
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Validating a Test to Measure Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge

2013
This study is a contribution to the ongoing validation of the word associates format, a selected-response type of test item devised by the author to measure depth of vocabulary knowledge (i.e., the extent to which learners are familiar with the range of meaning and uses of a set of target words).
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Conceptualization of Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge with Academic Reading Comprehension

2016
PASAA : a journal of language teaching and learning, 51,
Hasan, Md Kamrul, Shabdin, Ahmad Affendi
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Vocabulary size and depth as predictors of second language speaking ability

System, 2021
Mostafa Janebi Enayat, Ali Derakhshan
exaly