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A reassessment of frequency and vocabulary size in L2 vocabulary teaching [PDF]
Language Teaching, 2012 The high-frequency vocabulary of English has traditionally been thought to consist of the 2,000 most frequent word families, and low-frequency vocabulary as that beyond the 10,000 frequency level. This paper argues that these boundaries should be reassessed on pedagogic grounds.
Schmitt, Norbert, Schmitt, Diane
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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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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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The Implementation of Vocabulary Learning Strategies In Students Vocabulary Size
English Language Teaching Methodology, 2023 Using vocabulary size as a teaching strategy to help students improve their vocabulary is the primary goal of this study (in term noun and verb). At SMPN 1 Bide Satap, this study was carried out. In the following academic year, which will be 2021. Twenty-five second graders participated in this study.
Meliyana Junaid +2 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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, 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 frequency spectrum of finite samples from the intermittent silence process [PDF]
, 2009 It has been argued that the actual distribution of word frequencies could be reproduced or explained by generating a random sequence of letters and spaces according to the so-called intermittent silence process.
Ferrer Cancho, Ramon +1 more
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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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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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