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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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The Relationship between Vocabulary Size and Depth for Iranian EFL Learners at Different Language Proficiency Levels [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020
The present study investigated the association between vocabulary size and depth of Iranian EFL learners at different language proficiency levels. Additionally, the extent that this relationship could be different for lowand high-word-frequency bands ...
Mostafa Janebi Enayat, Seyed Mohammad Reza Amirian   +1 more
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Young children's perspectives of time: New directions for co‐constructing understandings of quality in ECEC

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Children's relationship with time in preschools is an under‐researched area. Young children rarely know how to measure time using a clock, but their experiences of time may contribute to understanding children's well‐being and debates about quality in preschools.
Kristín Dýrfjörð, Anna Magnea Hreinsdóttir, Adrijana Visnjic‐Jevtic, Alison Clark   +3 more
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Conceptualising quality early childhood education: Learning from young children in Brazil and South Africa through creative and play‐based methods

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Early childhood has increasingly been acknowledged as a vital time for all children. Inclusive and quality education is part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, with the further specification that all children have access to quality pre‐primary education.
Laura H. V. Wright, Irene Rizzini, Malibongwe Gwele, Lynn McNair, Cristina Laclette Porto, Marsha Orgill, E. Kay M. Tisdall, Malcolm Bush, Linda Biersteker   +8 more
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Randomisation and Derandomisation in Descriptive Complexity Theory [PDF]

, 2010
We study probabilistic complexity classes and questions of derandomisation from a logical point of view. For each logic L we introduce a new logic BPL, bounded error probabilistic L, which is defined from L in a similar way as the complexity class BPP ...
A. Dawar, C. Lautemann, D. Zuckerman, D.A.M. Barrington, E. Grädel, F. Bacchus, H. Keisler, H.D. Ebbinghaus, J. Lynch, J.Y. Cai, L. Hella, L. Libkin, L. Stockmeyer, M. Otto, N. Dalvi, N. Immerman, N. Immerman, N. Nisan, N. Nisan, N. Rescher, P.G. Kolaitis, R. Fagin, R. Fagin, R. Motwani, S. Toda, W. Feller, Y. Glebskiĭ, Y. Gurevich   +27 more
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Model-Checking Problems as a Basis for Parameterized Intractability [PDF]

, 2004
Most parameterized complexity classes are defined in terms of a parameterized version of the Boolean satisfiability problem (the so-called weighted satisfiability problem). For example, Downey and Fellow's W-hierarchy is of this form.
Downey, Jörg Flum, Leonid Libkin, Martin Grohe   +3 more
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The Relationship between Depth and Breadth of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension among Iranian EFL Learners [PDF]

Journal of English Language Teaching and Learning, 2011
The current study is an attempt to investigate the particular role learners' vocabulary knowledge plays in their reading comprehension performance. It intends to determine whether breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are related to EFL learners ...
Saeed Mehrpour, Seyyed Ayatollah Razmjoo, Parvaneh Kian   +2 more
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The dimensional approach to vocabulary testing: What can we learn from past and present practices?

Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2014
Vocabulary constitutes an important component of language and its study has attracted the interest of second-language (L2) and foreign-language (FL) teachers and applied language researchers, booming in the 1990s (cf. for example Ellis 1992, Read 2000).
Nizonkiza, Déogratias , van den Berg, Karien (née Hattingh)   +1 more
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Exploring the role of vocabulary depth and semantic set in EFL learners’ vocabulary use in writing [PDF]

Teaching English Language, 2010
The role of depth of vocabulary knowledge in EFL writing performance has remained an under-researched issue. The present study was designed to investigate the role of depth of vocabulary knowledge and semantic set in making appropriate word choices in ...
Mahmood Reza Atai, Ali Dabbagh
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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
doaj   +1 more source