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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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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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Les effets d’un dispositif d’enseignement du vocabulaire pluridimensionnel et multimodal sur les connaissances lexicales d’élèves en quatrième primaire

Lidil, 2020
The present study aims to measure the impact of an explicit and multidimensional vocabulary instruction—that is to say, which considers the different facets of word knowledge (form, meaning and use)—on the progress of 4th grade pupils in Québec (CM1) on ...
Rachel Berthiaume, Dominic Anctil, Daniel Daigle   +2 more
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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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Learning to Read Bilingually Modulates the Manifestations of Dyslexia in Adults [PDF]

, 2018
Published online: 28 Mar 2018According to the Grain Size Accommodation hypothesis (Lallier & Carreiras, 2017), learning to read in two languages differing in orthographic consistency leads to a cross-linguistic modulation of reading and spelling ...
Barr, Polly, Carreiras, Manuel, Lallier, Marie, Marie- Josephe, Tainturier, Thierry, Guillaume   +4 more
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Reading motivation, self-regulated reading strategies and English vocabulary knowledge: Which most predicted students’ English reading comprehension?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
This study explored how reading motivation, self-regulated reading strategies and English vocabulary knowledge influenced students’ English reading comprehension simultaneously in one model.
Hong Li, Zhengdong Gan
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Breadth or Depth: The Role of Vocabulary Knowledge in Iranian EAP Students’ Reading Comprehension Performance [PDF]

Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2014
Two main features of vocabulary knowledge, namely breadth and depth, have a fundamental role in vocabulary research. This research aimed to study the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension, and to investigate which feature of
Esmail Faghih, Faezeh Nemati
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Bayesian phylolinguistics infers the internal structure and the time-depth of the Turkic language family

, 2020
Despite more than 200 years of research, the internal structure of the Turkic language family remains subject to debate. Classifications of Turkic so far are based on both classical historical–comparative linguistic and distance-based quantitative ...
Robbeets, M., Savelyev, A.
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Toward a new data standard for combined marine biological and environmental datasets - expanding OBIS beyond species occurrences [PDF]

, 2017
The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) is the world's most comprehensive online, open-access database of marine species distributions. OBIS grows with millions of new species observations every year.
Appeltans, Ward, Bailly, Nicolas, Bailly, Nicolas, Bristol, Sky, Bristol, Sky, De Pooter, Daphnis, Deneudt, Klaas, Eliezer, Menashè, Fujioka, Ei, Giorgetti, Alessandra, Goldstein, Philip, Hernandez, Francisco, Klein Salas, Eduardo, Klein Salas, Eduardo, Lewis, Mirtha, Lipizer, Marina, Mackay, Kevin, Marin, Maria, Moncoiffé, Gwenaëlle, Nikolopoulou, Stamatina, Provoost, Pieter, Rauch, Shannon, Roubicek, Andres, Torres, Carlos, van de Putte, Anton, Vandepitte, Leen, Vanhoorne, Bart, Vanhoorne, Bart, Vinci, Matteo, Vinci, Matteo, Wambiji, Nina, Wambiji, Nina, Watts, David, Watts, David   +33 more
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