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Direct linkMarjana Šifrar Kalan; Javier Muñoz-Basols; Pablo Robles-García; Tripp Strawbridge; Claudia Sánchez-Gutiérrez – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This study investigates the effects of multilingualism and the degree of proficiency in different languages on vocabulary knowledge among Spanish language learners. Participants completed a 160-word meaning recall test designed to measure their knowledge of the 8,000 most frequent Spanish words and a self-assessment questionnaire on their…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Proficiency, Multilingualism, Word Frequency
Sonbul, Suhad; El-Dakhs, Dina Abdel Salam; Masrai, Ahmed – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2023
Recent studies suggest that developing L2 receptive knowledge of single words is associated with increased receptive knowledge of collocations. However, no study to date has directly examined the interrelationship between productive word knowledge and productive collocation knowledge. To address this gap, the present study administered a…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Skills, Word Frequency
Hung Tan Ha; Duyen Thi Bich Nguyen; Tim Stoeckel – Language Testing, 2024
Word frequency has a long history of being considered the most important predictor of word difficulty and has served as a guideline for several aspects of second language vocabulary teaching, learning, and assessment. However, recent empirical research has challenged the supremacy of frequency as a predictor of word difficulty. Accordingly,…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Vocabulary Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
De Wilde, Vanessa; Brysbaert, Marc; Eyckmans, June – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
A second language can be learned inside and outside the classroom. In this study we investigated the English and French vocabulary knowledge of 110 Dutch-speaking children (age 10-12), who received 100 hours of instruction in French, whereas their contact with English came from out-of-school exposure only. We examined the role of individual…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Second Language Learning, French, Vocabulary Development
Frost, Rebecca L. A.; Monaghan, Padraic; Christiansen, Morten H. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2019
High frequency words have been suggested to benefit both speech segmentation and grammatical categorization of the words around them. Despite utilizing similar information, these tasks are usually investigated separately in studies examining learning. We determined whether including high frequency words in continuous speech could support…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Speech Communication, Task Analysis, Language Tests
Read, John – 1987
While interest in second language vocabulary knowledge has increased, vocabulary testing remains largely confined to the quantitative measurement of discrete items. More qualitative measures are needed to assess how well particular words are known. Research has characterized word knowledge in two ways: as a set of components or aspects, and as an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Interviews, Language Tests
