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Wakayo Mattingley; Forrest Panther; Simon Todd; Jeanette King; Jennifer Hay; Peter J. Keegan – Language Learning, 2024
Previous studies report that exposure to the Maori language on a regular basis allows New Zealand adults who cannot speak Maori to build a proto-lexicon of Maori -- an implicit memory of word forms without detailed knowledge of meaning. How might this knowledge feed into explicit language learning? Is it possible to "awaken" the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Phonology, Second Language Learning, Malayo Polynesian Languages
Dale Brown; Phil Bennett; Geoffrey Pinchbeck – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2025
Knowledge of derivational affixes makes an important contribution to second language learners' success when reading. Yet while the effects of some learner variables (L2 proficiency, L1 background) have been investigated, there has been little research addressing the effects of varying characteristics of affixes on their acquisition. The goal of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Morphemes
Ming Li; Lubei Zhang – SAGE Open, 2025
This study examined word class effects on Yi students' L2 Chinese word associations. 108 stimulus words, consisting of 36 nouns, 36 verbs, and 36 adjectives, were chosen from Corpus of Modern Chinese, with their frequencies and concreteness being strictly controlled. 80 students from grade 4 and 85 students from grade 10 finished the word…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Form Classes (Languages), Grade 4, Grade 10
Nelson Balisar Panjaitan; Santi Yoseva Br. Siahaan – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2024
Language plays a crucial role in interpersonal communication, especially in social situations. To communicate effectively, learners need to expand their vocabulary, as vocabulary is the foundation for the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Teaching English as a foreign language can be challenging, especially when it…
Descriptors: Instructional Effectiveness, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Junior High School Students
Lingling Li; Hai Xu; Xian Zhang – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2025
Despite the widely used word lists in English as a second or foreign language learning, few attempts have been made to create an academic spoken collocation list, which holds significant potential for enhancing learners' aural and oral abilities in academic communication. This study created a list of the most frequently used and pedagogically…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Phrase Structure
John Read; Thi Ngoc Yen Dang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
In second language (L2) vocabulary studies there is continuing interest in tests of depth of vocabulary knowledge, measuring various aspects of word knowledge other than just the form--meaning link that is the focus of breadth (or size) tests. This study aimed to explore new formats that could be used as diagnostic tools for assessing depth of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Wimonsinee Yuanjai; Chanika Gampper – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
This study aims to evaluate the extent to which Taylor Swift's song lyrics incorporate vocabulary from the Oxford 3000 and 5000 word lists and to categorize these words based on CEFR levels. The goal is to narrow down the vast selection of songs available to EFL learners, focusing on the most essential vocabulary to enhance their learning…
Descriptors: Singing, Music, Musicians, English (Second Language)
Abdullah Alamer; Ahmed Al Khateeb; Abdulrahman Alshabeb – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2025
This study introduces the first Arabic Vocabulary Levels Test (Arabic-VLT), created for foreign learners of Arabic. We present compelling evidence to substantiate its validity and reliability. The Arabic-VLT was developed according to five levels, beginning with the most frequently used words (Level 1) to the least frequently used ones (Level 5),…
Descriptors: Arabic, Vocabulary Development, Test Construction, Second Language Learning
Rebeca Arndt – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2024
This study explored the lexical coverage of corpus-based vocabulary lists (general, academic, and content-specific) across several million tokens gathered from digital science resources (DSR) for middle school (6-8 grade) students in the United States. The goal was to estimate the extent to which a combination of well-known word lists, mostly…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Word Lists, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Ryan Klinger – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
Studies relating to the vocabulary items within EFL textbooks have revealed a divergence from well-researched wordlists such as the New General Service List (NGSL) (Browne et al., 2013), and the BNC/COCA wordlist (Nakayama, 2022; Sun and Dang, 2020). In Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) recently…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Word Frequency, Junior High Schools, English (Second Language)
Büsra Aras; Sultan Bozkurt; Serap Önen – Novitas-ROYAL (Research on Youth and Language), 2024
This research aimed to scrutinize and delineate the figures of speech manifesting in English hit songs. A selection of songs from Spotify's Top 30 Hit Songs List was chosen as the study material. The study employed a qualitative content analysis approach to classify the type and calculate the frequency of the figures of speech within the corpus of…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Chariya Prapobratanakul – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2024
This study explored words in materials science research articles using New Academic Word List (NAWL) and New General Service List (NGSL) created by Browne at al. (2013) as reference lists. The objectives of this research were to explore the frequency and coverage of the NAWL and the NGSL in materials science research articles and identify…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Word Lists, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Jing Wang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
This article explores how leading textbook authors select and instruct vocabulary in beginner and intermediate Chinese textbooks used in the United States. Leading textbook authors were approached; subsequently; four authors completed interviews with pre-designed questions. Grounded theory methodology was used to analyse the interviews, and their…
Descriptors: Textbook Preparation, Authors, Grammar, Word Frequency
Thana Kruawong; Supakorn Phoocharoensil – rEFLections, 2024
The development of subject-specific word lists to assist EFL learners is becoming popular, as is the utilization of CLIL to teach English in academic areas of science. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effects of the instruction of English Science Textbooks Word Lists (ESTWL) and the CLIL approach on the Science Vocabulary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Content and Language Integrated Learning, Science Instruction
Pong-ampai Kongcharoen; Jiraporn Dhanarattigannon; Tirote Thongnuan – PASAA: Journal of Language Teaching and Learning in Thailand, 2024
This study aimed to investigate the lexical competence of English-major EFL students. The learner corpus comprised 552 pieces of writing by sophomore English majors during five academic years between 2017 and 2021, containing 190,506words in total. The results from Vocab Profile program showed that these students used words contained in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English Departments, Writing Assignments, Majors (Students)