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Webb, Stuart; Rodgers, Michael P. H. – Applied Linguistics, 2009
The scripts of 318 movies were analyzed in this study to determine the vocabulary size necessary to understand 95% and 98% of the words in movies. The movies consisted of 2,841,887 running words and had a total running time of 601 hours and 33 minutes. The movies were classified as either American or British, and then put into the following…
Descriptors: Scripts, Physical Activities, Nouns, Vocabulary
Khaldieh, Salim A. – 1991
A study investigated the roles of phonological encoding and visual processes in word recognition in American learners of Arabic as a foreign language. Subjects were 36 individuals with proficiency ranging from beginning to native. Two experiments in word recognition were conducted, one at word and one at sentence level. At each level, the word…
Descriptors: Arabic, Auditory Discrimination, Comparative Analysis, Error Patterns