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Direct linkAbdullah Alamer; Mark Feng Teng; Atsushi Mizumoto – Applied Linguistics, 2025
Research into self-regulating capacity in vocabulary learning is recognized as a significant topic within the second language domain. The self-regulating capacity in vocabulary learning scale (SRCvoc; Tseng et al. 2006) is arguably the most widely used tool for assessing this construct. The common factor model, which is applied through…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Language Proficiency, Vocabulary Skills, Factor Analysis
Karolina Muszynska; Magdalena Luniewska; Agnieszka Dynak; Joanna Kolak; Ronja Lohrum; Agnieszka Otwinowska; Zofia Wodniecka; Ewa Haman – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
Bilingual children's total vocabulary in each of their languages is often smaller than that of monolinguals. In their seminal study, Bialystok et al. (2010. 'Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children.' "Bilingualism: Language and Cognition" 13 (4): 525-531) divided children's vocabulary into 'home' and…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Vocabulary Skills, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Download full textDennis Laffey – English Teaching, 2025
The present study presents an experiment in which online acronyms, formed from common fixed phrases or formulaic expressions, and in common usage in English medium computer-based communication, were presented to Korean university-level learners placed into either a control group or treatment group which was given instruction into the expansions…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language of Instruction
Chaouch-Orozco, Adel; González Alonso, Jorge; Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni; Rothman, Jason – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
A growing consensus sees the bilingual lexicon as an integrated, nonselective system. However, the way bilingual experience shapes the architecture and functioning of the lexicon is not well understood. This study investigates bilingual lexical-semantic representation and processing employing written translation priming. We focus on the role of…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Bilingualism
Besma Allagui; Shamma Al Naqbi – TESL-EJ, 2024
Vocabulary knowledge plays an important role in writing. Previous research has examined the relationship between various aspects of vocabulary knowledge and independent writing performance and limited attention has been given to integrated writing such as summary writing. Our study investigated the contribution of two aspects of vocabulary…
Descriptors: Writing Skills, Vocabulary Skills, Correlation, English (Second Language)
Takehiro Iizuka – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study examined the significance of the mode of delivery--aural versus written--in second language (L2) vocabulary knowledge and L2 comprehension skills. One of the unique aspects of listening comprehension that sets it apart from reading comprehension is the mode of delivery--language input is delivered not visually but aurally. Somewhat…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Listening Comprehension, Language Skills, Error of Measurement
Saunders, Emily; Quinto-Pozos, David – Second Language Research, 2023
Studies have shown that iconicity can provide a benefit to non-signers during the learning of single signs, but other aspects of signed messages that might also be beneficial have received less attention. In particular, do other features of signed languages help support comprehension of a message during the process of language learning? The…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis
Zhang, Yanhui; Wu, Weiping – Language Testing in Asia, 2021
This study proposed an innovative automated approach to differentiation of the vocabulary proficiency of Chinese speakers. A robust K-means algorithm was designed to compare the oral proficiency between L1 and L2 Chinese speakers regarding lexical richness and how relatively effective the various lexical measures were in performing the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Skills, Chinese
Almudena Fernández-Fontecha; Rosa Mª Jiménez Catalán; James Ryan – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2024
Research is scarce about the lexical processes undertaken by thousands of L2 learners worldwide who already command one or more languages. Some aspects involved in lexical organisation and production, such as clustering and switching, have been traditionally approached through manual methods, which depend on subjective judgments of semantic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Fluency, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hang Wei; Julie E. Boland; Chi Zhang; Anlin Yang; Fang Yuan – Language Learning, 2024
This study examined structural priming during online second language (L2) comprehension. In two self-paced reading experiments, 64 intermediate to advanced Chinese learners of English as a foreign language read coordinated noun phrases where the conjuncts had either the same structure or different structures. Experiment 1 showed that the second…
Descriptors: Chinese, Native Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Hamid Allami; Boshra Najari; Zia Tajeddin – Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, 2025
This study explores the impact of sociocultural theory-based instruction on enhancing L2 learners' writing skills including grammatical accuracy, coherence, cohesion, task response, and lexical resources for the IELTS. To this end, a cohort of 40 participants, spanning intermediate and advanced proficiency levels, was divided into experimental and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Writing Skills
Balkir, Nalan Bayraktar; Celik, Handan; Cepni, Gokhan – Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal, 2023
This study investigated lexical complexity in English language teaching (ELT) students' essays across genres and over the course of time. The essays included descriptive, compare and contrast, advantage and disadvantage, and argumentative genres. Employing a longitudinal, quasi-experimental and repeated measures design in a year-long writing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Essays
Noam Siegelman; Irina Elgort; Marc Brysbaert; Niket Agrawal; Simona Amenta; Jasmina Arsenijevic Mijalkovic; Christine S. Chang; Daria Chernova; Fabienne Chetail; A. J. Benjamin Clarke; Alain Content; Davide Crepaldi; Nastag Davaabold; Shurentsetseg Delgersuren; Avital Deutsch; Veronika Dibrova; Denis Drieghe; Dušica Filipovic Ðurdevic; Brittany Finch; Ram Frost; Carolina A. Gattei; Esther Geva; Aline Godfroid; Lindsay Griener; Esteban Hernández-Rivera; Anastasia Ivanenko; Juhani Järvikivi; Lea Kawaletz; Anurag Khare; Jun Ren Lee; Charlotte E. Lee; Christina Manouilidou; Marco Marelli; Timur Mashanlo; Ksenija Mišic; Koji Miwa; Pauline Palma; Ingo Plag; Zoya Rezanova; Enkhzaya Riimed; Jay Rueckl; Sascha Schroeder; Irina A. Sekerina; Diego E. Shalom; Natalia Slioussar; Neža Marija Slosar; Vanessa Taler; Kim Thériault; Debra Titone; Odonchimeg Tumee; Ross van de Wetering; Ark Verma; Anna Fiona Weiss; Denise Hsien Wu; Victor Kuperman – Language Learning, 2024
This article presents the ENglish Reading Online (ENRO) project that offers data on English reading and listening comprehension from 7,338 university-level advanced learners and native speakers of English representing 19 countries. The database also includes estimates of reading rate and seven component skills of English, including vocabulary,…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language
Brahim Outamgharte; Mohamed Yeou; Hicham Zyad – Anatolian Journal of Education, 2024
Recent research on English as a foreign language (EFL) vocabulary instruction has surged due to its inherent importance and the challenge it poses, given the vast number of words in languages. Many studies explored how reading enhances EFL students' vocabulary. However, empirical studies on how narrow reading aids beginners' vocabulary growth are…
Descriptors: High School Students, Receptive Language, Vocabulary Skills, Reading Skills
Sakire Erbay Çetinkaya; Mustafa Naci Kayaoglu – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2024
Teaching English as an International Language (TEIL) refers to teaching English as a truly international medium via exposing learners to diversity, adopting a broad cultural view, fostering sensitivity and responsibility, being sensitive to the local culture of learning, and equipping learners with communication strategies. To put this lately…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
