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“That’s not evolving, that’s devolving!”:incidental vocabulary learning through watching TikTok videos [PDF]

, 2023
. The term “digital natives” was coined in 2001 (Prensky) to illustrate a common narrative that modern teenagers are acclimatised to digital environments. In recent years, the debate has focused on social media.
Aho, P. (Petra)
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A Word-frequency Based Assessment of English as a Foreign Language Master One Students' Written Receptive and Productive Lexical Knowledge

Revue des Sciences Humaines, 2017
Learning an adequate knowledge of words is a prerequisite for linguistic mastery.     The present study was basically carried out to quantitatively evaluate EFL Master One students’ lexical knowledge.
Yahia ALMI
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Vocabulary Learning Strategies, Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Comprehension of EFL Undergraduate Students in Iran [PDF]

, 2010
The current study investigated the relationship among vocabulary learning strategies, vocabulary knowledge, and reading comprehension of Iranian undergraduate EFL students.
Reza, Kafipour
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Vocabulary learning strategies among University Science Islamic Malaysia (USIM) Mandarin learner / Yee Chin Yip [PDF]

, 2021
The present study examined Mandarin vocabulary size and vocabulary learning strategies of University Science Islam Malaysia’s (USIM) Level 3 learners. The questionnaire has divided into three sections; firstly, Vocabulary Size Test (VST) was conducted to
Yee, Chin Yip
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Why has (reasonably accurate) Automatic Speech Recognition been so hard to achieve? [PDF]

, 2009
Hidden Markov models (HMMs) have been successfully applied to automatic speech recognition for more than 35 years in spite of the fact that a key HMM assumption -- the statistical independence of frames -- is obviously violated by speech data.
Gillick, Larry, Wegmann, Steven
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Relative complexity in a model of word difficulty: The role of loanwords in vocabulary size tests

Studies in Second Language Learning and Teaching
Recent studies have shown that the frequency effect, although long used as a guide to word difficulty, fails to explain all variance in learner word knowledge.
Derek Canning, Stuart McLean, Joseph Vitta   +2 more
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Is Intuition Enough When Choosing Vocabulary? [PDF]

, 2010
This paper outlines an analytical study whose purpose is to examine and critique the appropriateness of lexical choice in current mass market language textbooks for Japanese students.
James Martin Rogers
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THE CORRELATION BETWEEN EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE AND VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE (A Case study on Second Grade Students in SMAN 3 CIREBON) [PDF]

, 2015
Dwi Apriliane : “The Correlation between Emotional Intelligence and Vocabulary Knowledge (A Case study on Second Grade Students in SMAN 3 CIREBON)”. In this era many students who have difficulty in learning English.
DWI APRILIANE,
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Vocabulary Knowledge for Proficiency in English as a Second Language – A Literature Review [PDF]

Vocabulary knowledge is fundamental to language development, learning, and use. It is commonly held that without sufficient vocabulary knowledge, little can be communicated effectively in a language.
Katushemererwe, Fridah, Rugyema, Rodney
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Jumping from the highest graded readers to ungraded novels: four case studies [PDF]

, 2014
This study follows a small group of learners in the UK to the end of a graded reading program using the Cambridge Readers and investigates whether this particular graded reading series provides a bridge to reading unsimplified novels for pleasure.
Schmitt, Diane, Schmitt, Norbert, Uden, Jez   +2 more
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