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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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An intelligent vocabulary size measurement method for second language learner
Language Testing in Asia, 2023 This paper presents a new method for accurately measuring the vocabulary size of second language (L2) learners. Traditional vocabulary size tests (VSTs) are limited in capturing a tester’s vocabulary and are often population-specific.
Tian Xia +3 more
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Matthew effects in young readers : reading comprehension and reading experience aid vocabulary development [PDF]
, 2011 The authors report data from a longitudinal study of the reading development of children who were assessed in the years of their 8th, 11th, 14th, and 16th birthdays.
Oakhill, Jane, Cain, Kate
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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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Validation of the Vocabulary Size Test
Eğitimde ve Psikolojide Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Dergisi, 2022 The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) is one of the most commonly used assessment tools for measuring English vocabulary size in the field of language testing. Despite its common usage, only a limited number of validity and reliability studies have been carried out with regard to the VST. Besides, they were mostly predicated on the Rasch model.
Mustafa GÖKCAN, Derya ÇOBANOĞLU AKTAN
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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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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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The Study on Students' Vocabulary Size
Jambura Journal of English Teaching and Literature, 2021 This study intends to know the vocabulary size of English Department Students in eight semesters. The population of this research is all students in English Department, specifically in eight semesters (class of 2013). This research used purposive sampling in taking the samples, and there are 21 students as the sample obtained from 122 students as the ...
Yuliana T Wero +2 more
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French-speaking teenagers’ mastery of connectives:: The role of vocabulary size and exposure to print [PDF]
, 2022 Connectives such as however and since play an important role for marking coherence relations in discourse and therefore are crucial for reading comprehension, which in turn is a strong predictor of academic success.
Tskhovrebova, Ekaterina +3 more
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Journal of Language and Education, 2021 Vocabulary size is believed to have positive correlations with learners’ language skills, reading comprehension, knowledge acquisition, and academic achievement.
Frankie Subon, Norseha Unin
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