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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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Longitudinal measurement of growth in vocabulary size using Rasch-based test equating
Language Testing in Asia, 2022 The purpose of this study is to equate and further validate three forms of the vocabulary size test (VST) created by Aizawa and Mochizuki (2010). These three forms, VST 1, 2, and 3, were administered to a cohort of 189 high school students ranging in age
Masaki Akase
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Rater judgments and word difficulty: Conceptualizing the substantive validity of the VST
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2022 The substantive component of construct validity requires a confrontation between empirical test results and content relevance. The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) has been extensively validated in terms of empirical results.
Derek N. Canning +2 more
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Pain Research and Management, Volume 2023, Issue 1, 2023., 2023 Objective. Chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) poses a considerable threat to physical, mental, and financial health worldwide. Beyond physical difficulties, CMP has a pronounced impact on pain behaviors and cognitive function. The purpose of this scoping review was to examine the relationship between pain catastrophizing (PC) and cognitive function in ...
Cory Alcon +5 more
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EFL Learners' Receptive Knowledge of Derived Words: The Case of Swedish Adolescents
TESOL Quarterly, Volume 56, Issue 4, Page 1242-1265, December 2022., 2022 Abstract The study investigated how well Swedish adolescents recognize the meaning of derived words in English and whether this knowledge is determined by learner proficiency, word frequency, or affix type. Participants were 88 school students in two proficiency groups: 39 advanced 12th graders and 49 intermediate 9th graders.
Per Snoder, Batia Laufer
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Current Protocols, Volume 2, Issue 4, April 2022., 2022 Abstract The generation and interpretation of results from transcriptome profiling experiments via RNA sequencing (RNA‐seq) can be a complex task. While raw data quality control, alignment, and quantification can be streamlined via efficient algorithms that can deliver the preprocessed expression matrix, a common bottleneck in the analysis of such ...
Annekathrin Ludt +4 more
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Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Volume 2022, Issue 1, 2022., 2022 Image text description is a multimodal data processing problem in the computer field, which involves the research tasks of computer vision and natural language processing. At present, the research focus of image text description task is mainly on the method based on deep learning. The work of this paper is mainly focused on the imprecise description of
Cifeng Qin +3 more
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Lexize: A test to quickly assess vocabulary knowledge in Finnish
Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, Volume 62, Issue 6, Page 806-819, December 2021., 2021 Proficiency in a language is strongly related to how well and how many words one knows. Vocabulary knowledge correlates with reading comprehension and general communication ability. Due to the increasing amount of research within the field of psycholinguistics and second language acquisition in Finnish, a standardized test to objectively measure ...
ROSA SALMELA +3 more
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A review of four studies on measuring vocabulary knowledge
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2014 The purpose of this paper is to review each of the following four vocabulary studies: (1) Estimations of Japanese University Learners’ English Vocabulary Sizes Using the Vocabulary Size Test (VST), by Stuart McLean, Nicholas Hogg, and Brandon Kramer, (2)
Akiyo Hirai
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Vocabulary 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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