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Vocabulary Demands of Informal Spoken English Revisited: What Does It Take to Understand Movies, TV Programs, and Soap Operas?

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
The article presents a methodological update on the lexical profile of informal spoken English with the emphasis on movies, television programs, and soap operas. The study analyzed Mark Davies’s mega-corpora with data containing approximately 625 million
Hung Tan Ha
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DEVELOPMENT OF A VOCABULARY FOR PROFILING APPLE JUICES [PDF]

Journal of Food Quality, 2000
ABSTRACTA protocol for selecting an apple juice lexicon and for training a company panel was developed, using a series of 21 ‘taste’ sessions. Individual assessment, round‐table discussion and consensus were used to identify reference standards for six aroma and 11 flavor attributes and 13 ‘off ‘notes.
MARGARET A. CLIFF, KATHARINE WALL, BARB J. EDWARDS, MARJORIE C. KING   +3 more
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Using multiple measures of language dominance and proficiency in Farsi-English bilingual children

Frontiers in Communication, 2023
This paper aims to identify effective means of measuring dominance and proficiency in bilingual children. Thirty-seven Farsi-English Heritage language speaking children from 6;1 to 11;6 were assessed on their vocabulary, morphosyntax, and narrative ...
Mariam Komeili, Parvaneh Tavakoli, Theodoros Marinis   +2 more
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Profiling vocabulary acquisition in Irish

Journal of Child Language, 2011
ABSTRACTInvestigations into early vocabulary development, including the timing of the acquisition of nouns, verbs and closed-class words, have produced conflicting results, both within and across languages. Studying vocabulary development in Irish can contribute to this area, as it has potentially informative features such as a VSO word order, and ...
O'Toole, Ciara, Fletcher, Paul
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ANALYZING VOCABULARY LEVEL OF THE STUDENTS’ ESSAY WRITING AND ACADEMIC TEXTBOOK UTILIZING LEXTUTOR

Eternal (English, Teaching, Learning & Research Journal), 2015
The objectives of this study were to describe the result of the vocabulary level analysis of the students‟ essay writing and academic textbook utilizing lextutor, to investigate the effects of introducing VP web tool (lextutor) on students‟ vocabulary ...
Nur Aliyah Nur
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Profile Of Teacher's Understanding Of Mathematics Symbols And Vocabulary

JUPE : Jurnal Pendidikan Mandala, 2023
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menyelidiki pemahaman guru tentang simbol matematika dan kosa kata. Subyek penelitian ini adalah lima orang guru SMP di Kecamatan Lambitu Kabupaten Bima. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kualitatif deskriptif yang bertujuan untuk menggali penguasaan simbol dan kosa kata matematika pada guru. Subyek dalam penelitian ini
Azra Fauzi, Syahrir Syahrir, Dina Amalya Lapele   +2 more
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Effective techniques of teaching vocabulary in Afghan EFL classrooms

Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2022
The present study investigated effective techniques of teaching vocabulary in an Afghan EFL setting. It also attempts to determine the impacts of the participants’ demographic profile ((i.e., gender, age, first language, and teaching experiences) on ...
Sayeed Asif Akramy, Abdul Qawi Noori, Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan, Aminuddin Hashemi   +3 more
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Completing the English Vocabulary Profile: C1 and C2 vocabulary [PDF]

English Profile Journal, 2012
AbstractThe English Vocabulary Profile is an online vocabulary resource for teachers, teacher trainers, exam setters, materials writers and syllabus designers. It offers extensive information about the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR) levels of words, phrases, phrasal verbs and idioms, and currently includes just under 7,000 headwords ...
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Assessing the relationship between Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) and reading comprehension

Studies in English Language and Education, 2017
It has been considered crucial about how vocabulary knowledge in relation with reading comprehension. This research was conducted to explore the link of Indonesian students Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) performance and their reading textbook on reading ...
Alpino Susanto
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Vocabulary of L1 and L2 Graduation Theses Written by English Philology Students: Academic Writing of Montenegrin and US Students Compared

ELOPE, 2020
The paper explores the lexical profile of graduation theses written by the students at the University of Montenegro and compares it against that of BA theses authored by native speakers of American English.
Milica Vuković Stamatović, Vesna Bratić, Igor Lakić   +2 more
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