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, 2020 Previous research has shown that vocabulary size affects performance on laboratory word production tasks. Individuals who know many words show faster lexical access and retrieve more words belonging to pre-specified categories than individuals who know ...
Hintz, F., Jongman, S., Khoe, Y.
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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 +1 more
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Journal of Modern Languages, 2020 While studies have investigated the strategies used by Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learners to learn new words and the relationship with their current vocabulary knowledge, there is a lack of studies that examine the vocabulary learning ...
Yasir Bdaiwi Jasim +2 more
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Relationships Between Vocabulary Size, Working Memory, and Phonological Awareness in Spanish-Speaking English Language Learners [PDF]
, 2012 Purpose: The goals of this study were to evaluate the impact of short-term phonological awareness (PA) instruction presented in children\u27s first language (L1; Spanish) on gains in their L1 and second language (L2; English) and to determine whether ...
Gorman, Brenda K.
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Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2021 This study investigates the idea that knowledge of specialist subject vocabulary can make a significant and measurable impact on academic performance, separate from and additional to the impact of general and academic vocabulary knowledge.
Ahmed Masrai +3 more
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Linguistically Motivated Vocabulary Reduction for Neural Machine Translation from Turkish to English [PDF]
, 2017 The necessity of using a fixed-size word vocabulary in order to control the model complexity in state-of-the-art neural machine translation (NMT) systems is an important bottleneck on performance, especially for morphologically rich languages ...
Ataman, Duygu +3 more
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Consonant articulation and vocabulary size: Twins versus singletons [PDF]
Journal of Child Language, 2021 AbstractTurkish-speaking dyzygotic twins (n = 21) and singletons (n = 23) were tested through a standard articulation test to observe whether their consonant articulations were related to their vocabulary sizes, recorded through CDI forms, at age 3;0.
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Educational Futures, 2023 The aim of this research was to explore UK undergraduates’ receptive knowledge of vocabulary and how these relate to academic achievement in order to improve educational outcomes for students. An estimate of undergraduate students’ receptive knowledge of
Jennifer Marshall
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Academic literacy of South African higher education level students: Does vocabulary size matter?
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics, 2015 This study explores the extent to which vocabulary size matters in academic literacy. Participants (first-year students at North-West University) were administered the Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, Schmitt and Clapham 2001).
Déogratias Nizonkiza, Tobie van Dyk
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Research on Vocabulary Sizes and Codebook Universality [PDF]
Abstract and Applied Analysis, 2014 Codebook is an effective image representation method. By clustering in local image descriptors, a codebook is shown to be a distinctive image feature and widely applied in object classification. In almost all existing works on codebooks, the building of the visual vocabulary follows a basic routine, that is, extracting local image descriptors and ...
Wei-Xue Liu, Jian Hou, Hamid Reza Karimi
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