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Limitations of Size and Levels Tests of Written Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge
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Stoeckel, Tim; McLean, Stuart; Nation, Paul – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Two commonly used test types to assess vocabulary knowledge for the purpose of reading are size and levels tests. This article first reviews several frequently stated purposes of such tests (e.g., materials selection, tracking vocabulary growth) and provides a reasoned argument for the precision needed to serve such purposes. Then three sources of…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language, Written Language, Knowledge Level
Learning Words with Unfamiliar Orthography: The Role of Cognitive Abilities
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Marie-Josée Bisson – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Research suggests new foreign language (FL) words are learned more easily if their phonology follows the phonotactic rules of the native language. Very little is known, however, about the impact of orthography on FL learning. This study investigated the cognitive mechanisms supporting the learning of words with familiar and unfamiliar…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Phonology
The Influence of Orthography on Oral Vocabulary Acquisition in Learners of Chinese as a Second Language
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Zhang, Jie; Li, Hong; Liu, Yang – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
The present study investigated the effects of exposure to Chinese orthography on learning phonological forms of new words in learners of Chinese as a second language. A total of 30 adult learners of Chinese studied spoken label and picture associations presented either with phonologically accurate characters, characters with partial phonological…
Descriptors: Chinese, Written Language, Orthographic Symbols, Phonology
A Review of Laboratory Studies of Adult Second Language Vocabulary Training
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Rice, Caitlin A.; Tokowicz, Natasha – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
This review examines and integrates studies of second language (L2) vocabulary instruction with adult learners in a laboratory setting, using a framework provided by a modified version of the Revised Hierarchical Model (Kroll & Stewart, 1994), the Revised Hierarchical Model-Repetition Elaboration Retrieval. By examining how various training…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Semantics
Russian Phono-Lexical Acquisition and Orthographic Input: Naïve Learners, Experienced Learners, and Interventions
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Showalter, Catherine E. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2020
We investigated how grapheme familiarity and grapheme-phoneme correspondence (GPC) congruence affect adult learners' ability to make use of orthographic input (OI) during phono-lexical acquisition. Native English speakers, with no Russian experience (naïve) or learners of Russian, heard auditory forms, saw pictured meanings, and saw written input…
Descriptors: Russian, Graphemes, Familiarity, Phoneme Grapheme Correspondence
Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition from Oral and Written Dialogue Journals.
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Brown, Cheryl; Sagers, Sherri L.; LaPorte, Carrie – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1999
Presents a hypothesis-generating study of advanced university English-as-a-Foreign-Language learners' incidental vocabulary acquisition from oral and written dialogue journals over a semester. Teacher and student entries were analyzed and transcribed using WordCruncher (1993). Analyses compare characteristics of the input to the learners in the…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, College Students, Dialog Journals, English (Second Language)