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Estimations of Japanese university learners' English vocabulary sizes using the vocabulary size test

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014
Measuring students’ lexica is time-consuming, as one sitting of the Vocabulary Size Test (VST) usually takes 4060 minutes. As a result, teachers would benefit from being able to make reasonable estimates from commonly available information.
Stuart McLean   +2 more
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How many words do we know?Practical estimates of vocabulary size dependent on word definition, the degree of language input and the participant’s age

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
Based on an analysis of the literature and a large scale crowdsourcing experiment, we estimate that an average 20 year old native speaker of American English knows 42,000 lemmas and 4,200 non-transparent multiword expressions, derived from 11,100 word ...
Marc Brysbaert   +3 more
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The Power of Aural and Picture Vocabulary Size Test in Predicting Iranian EFL Learners’ Viewing Comprehension [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of English Language Pedagogy and Practice, 2022
The aim of this investigation has been to predict Viewing Comprehension through Aural and Picture Vocabulary Size among Iranian EFL Learners. To this end, 110 intermediate students were selected from two institutes of a city in Khorasan Razavi province ...
Seyed Mohammadreza Amirian   +2 more
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Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Indonesia: A Guideline for Vocabulary Instruction

open access: yesAcitya, 2022
This article aims to provide some guidelines for teachers on how to conduct vocabulary instruction in their class because one of the main issues faced by Indonesian students recently is the lack of vocabulary knowledge that affects their English ...
Sudarman Sudarman   +2 more
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Exploring differences in vocabulary knowledge of semi-urban ESL undergraduate students

open access: yesCalidoscópio, 2018
This study explored the differences in receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge in terms of word frequency level and vocabulary size in undergraduate learners of English as a Second Language (ESL).
Doddapaneni Anil Kumar   +1 more
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A Study into the Interplay Between First and Second Language Reading Motivation, Reading Habits and Vocabulary Size

open access: yesDarnioji daugiakalbystė, 2023
The present study aimed to investigate the cross-linguistic effect of L1 vocabulary, reading motivation and habits on L2 vocabulary, reading motivation and habits.
Toplu Nuray Caylak, Erten Ismail Hakki
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The role of motivation and vocabulary learning strategies in L2 vocabulary knowledge: A structural equation modeling analysis

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2022
This study explores the complex relationships between language learning motivation, vocabulary learning strategies, and two components of second language vocabulary knowledge (i.e., vocabulary size and depth), within the framework of self-regulated ...
Jang Ho Lee   +2 more
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Automatic priming, schema induction and spread of activation in l2 lexical access: Do differences in vocabulary size and depth of priming remain invariant?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Studies in Psychology, 2022
This study investigated automatic priming, schema induction, the spread of activation, and L2 lexical access through vocabulary size and depth. Employing the theoretical framework of the distributed memory representation, the underlying assumption was ...
Stephen Ntim
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Longitudinal measurement of the vocabulary size of Japanese junior high school students: Developing a vocabulary size test for beginner learners

open access: yesVocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021
As vocabulary plays an important part in L2 learning at the beginner level, investigation into vocabulary learning constitutes an essential part of second language acquisition research (Koda, 1989, Laufer, 1992, Meara, 1992).
Tsuyoshi Sato
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The Correlation between Internet Literacy and Passive Vocabulary Size

open access: yesLingua Cultura, 2018
This research aimed at describing the correlation between students’ internet literacy and their passive vocabulary size. The findings of this research were expected to predict how much the two variables correlate.
Riza Weganofa, Rizky Lutviana
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