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Measurement of Vocabulary Knowledge

2016
It has been widely acknowledged that vocabulary plays a significant role in second language acquisition. To a large degree, learners’ improvement in L2 acquisition depends on their progress in acquiring individual words and word parts (Barcroft, 2004).
Yinglai Yue, Si Fan
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A Comparative Study on Various Vocabulary Knowledge Scales for Predicting Vocabulary Pre-Knowledge

International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2017
The world has encountered and witnessed the great popularity of various emerging e-learning resources such as massive open online courses (MOOCs), textbooks and videos with the development of the big data era. It is critical to understand the characteristics of users to assist them to find desired and relevant learning resources in such a large volume ...
Di Zou   +5 more
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Vocabulary Knowledge

2013
Language researchers and practitioners often adopt tools and techniques without testing whether they really work as they should. This is understandable because most scholars do not have the time or expertise to properly evaluate the usefulness of all instruments, measures, and methods they need.
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Medical Vocabulary Knowledge Among Hospital Patients

Journal of Health and Human Behavior, 1961
I'll tell you something, a good one on me. When my first child was born the doctor-like I told you I think it would be nice if they would reduce the language to where a person with hardly no education could understand these people; but me, I'm so frank myself that I tell them, "Look, let's knock this thing down and let's speak English to me because I ...
Julian Samora   +2 more
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Vocabulary Knowledge and Vocabulary Use in Second Language Writing

TESOL Journal, 2016
Research has consistently shown diversity of vocabulary to be an important indicator of second language (L2) writing development as well as L2 writing performance. These studies underscore the importance of vocabulary to L2 writing. However, they provide little to indicate what kind of vocabulary learners of English may need to know in order to develop
Mark D. Johnson   +2 more
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Vocabulary Knowledge and Acquisition

Advances in Humanities Research
This essay is written to promote effective vocabulary teaching for Chinese English teachers. Vocabulary is an important part of English learning in primary school, and it is also important for students to focus on memorizing during the learning process.
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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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Assessing Partial Knowledge in Vocabulary

Journal of Educational Measurement, 1987
This study reports an attempt to assess partial knowledge in vocabulary. Fifty multiple‐choice vocabulary items were constructed so that the incorrect choices followed the stages of vocabulary acquisition defined by O'Connor (1940). Ability estimates based on Rasch dichotomous and polychotomous models were compared to determine if there were any gains ...
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