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Direct linkAbdullah 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
Alsahafi, Morad – SAGE Open, 2023
This study investigates the relationship between depth of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic success among Saudi English-as-a-foreign-language university students. Fifty fourth-year university students majoring in English completed a vocabulary depth test, the Word Associates Test (WAT), based on the Academic Word List (AWL). Then,…
Descriptors: Correlation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development
Nicklin, Christopher; Vitta, Joseph P. – Language Testing, 2022
Instrument measurement conducted with Rasch analysis is a common process in language assessment research. A recent systematic review of 215 studies involving Rasch analysis in language testing and applied linguistics research reported that 23 different software packages had been utilized. However, none of the analyses were conducted with one of…
Descriptors: Programming Languages, Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Computer Software
Download full textMasrai, Ahmed; Milton, James – TESOL International Journal, 2017
Research has shown that general vocabulary knowledge (e.g., Milton & Treffers-Daller, 2013), academic vocabulary knowledge (e.g., Townsend et al., 2012) and general intelligence (e.g., Laidra et al., 2007) are good predictors of academic achievement. While the effect of these factors has mostly been examined separately, Townsend et al. (2012)…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Intelligence
AlShaiji, Ohoud Abdullatif; AlSaleem, Basma Issa – Education, 2014
The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of Word Walls on improving the English reading fluency of Saudi kindergarten's children. The present study attempted to answer whether there was a statistically significant difference (a = 0.05) between the Saudi children's subjects' mean score on the English reading fluency test due to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Reading Fluency, Reading Instruction
Alsaif, Abdullah; Milton, James – Language Learning Journal, 2012
Research repeatedly reports very little vocabulary uptake by English as a foreign language (EFL) learners in public schools in Saudi Arabia. Factors such as the teaching methodology employed and learner motivation have been suggested to explain this but a further explanation, the vocabulary input these learners receive, remains uninvestigated. An…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Textbooks, Criterion Referenced Tests, Foreign Countries
