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Ben Naismith; Alan Juffs – Language Teaching Research, 2024
Research into vocabulary knowledge often differentiates between breadth (how many words a person knows) and depth (how well the words are known). Both theoretical categories are essential for understanding language learners' lexical development, but how the different aspects of vocabulary knowledge interconnect has not received the same attention…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
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Yildiz, Mustafa – Journal of English Teaching, 2022
Investigating lexical richness is a continuing concern within vocabulary studies. The present study aims to contribute to this growing area of research by exploring EFL learners' free active vocabulary by dividing them into groups based on their receptive vocabulary. It seeks to explain the role of different essay types and proficiency levels…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Çakmak, Ceren Tasatan; Merç, Ali – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
Vocabulary has been accepted as an important aspect of language learning in many studies. In the light of these studies in literature, the purpose of the present study is to evaluate the general and academic lexical competence and performance of preparatory class students at School of Foreign Languages, Kütahya Dumlupinar University. Within this…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Martini, Juliane – Research-publishing.net, 2020
The aim of the present study was to evaluate the appropriateness of open-access reading materials for an intensive English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course, and to provide teachers with a set of criteria to select online texts systematically and efficiently. The Corpus for Veterinarians (VetCorpus) was compiled and analyzed using Lextutor corpus…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Open Source Technology, Academic Language, Vocabulary Development