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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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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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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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The Relationship between Vocabulary Size and Depth for Iranian EFL Learners at Different Language Proficiency Levels [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2020 The present study investigated the association between vocabulary size and depth of Iranian EFL learners at different language proficiency levels. Additionally, the extent that this relationship could be different for lowand high-word-frequency bands ...
Mostafa Janebi Enayat +1 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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Vocabulary, Metalinguistic Awareness and Language Dominance Among Bilingual Preschool Children
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Awareness of language structure has been studied in bilinguals, but there is limited research on how language dominance is related to metalinguistic awareness, and whether metalinguistic awareness predicts vocabulary size.
Carmit Altman +2 more
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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN STUDENTS’ VOCABULARY LEARNING STRATEGIES AND THEIR VOCABULARY SIZE
English Language, Linguistics, and Culture International Journal, 2022 The research aimed to finding out the types of vocabulary learning strategies (VLS) used by students of SMK Negeri 4 Makassar, the differences of vocabulary learning strategies used by the students of SMK Negeri 4 Makassar based on their field of study, and whether or not the significant relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and ...
Nur Husnil Khatimah +2 more
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A Preliminary Research to Develop A Customized Set of Vocabulary Size Test
LLT Journal: A Journal on Language and Language Teaching, 2016 This is a preliminary research to investigate useful words to function effectively in academic contexts, vocabulary size, the first-year students word list, and the steps to design the customized set of entry-level vocabulary size test. This research was
Laurentia Sumarni
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Vocabulary Size of University of Aden English Language Students
REiLA, 2021 This research paper tried to evaluate the department of English students' vocabulary size by using Nation Vocabulary size tests (VST). The study used a sample of the third level students at the department of English-Faculty of Education-Aden at the ...
Abdulnaser Mohammed Ali Naqeeb
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Learning Word Embeddings from the Portuguese Twitter Stream: A Study of some Practical Aspects
, 2017 This paper describes a preliminary study for producing and distributing a large-scale database of embeddings from the Portuguese Twitter stream. We start by experimenting with a relatively small sample and focusing on three challenges: volume of training
Oliveira, Eugénio +4 more
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