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Read, John – Language Testing, 2023
Published work on vocabulary assessment has grown substantially in the last 10 years, but it is still somewhat outside the mainstream of the field. There has been a recent call for those developing vocabulary tests to apply professional standards to their work, especially in validating their instruments for specified purposes before releasing them…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning, Test Format
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Maryam Barghamadi; Amanda Müller; James Rogers; Joanne Arciuli – Language Teaching Research Quarterly, 2024
The study explored the impact of proficiency, frequency, L1-L2 congruency, and semantic transparency on the knowledge of multi-word units (MWUs) among Iranian L2 learners (N = 256). A gap-filling test was used to assess learners' productive knowledge, employing a high-frequency MWU list created with the lemmatised concgramming method. The list,…
Descriptors: Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Language Proficiency
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Webb, Stuart – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2021
Recently there has been some debate about the appropriacy of different lexical units in pedagogy and research (e.g., Brown et al., 2020; Dang & Webb, 2016a; Kremmel, 2016; Laufer & Cobb, 2020; McLean, 2018; Nation, 2016; Nation & Webb, 2011; Vilkaite-Lozdiene & Schmitt, 2020). The lexical unit (word types, lemmas, flemmas, word…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Vocabulary Development, Teaching Methods
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Allen, David; Nakamura, Keita – Language Testing, 2023
Although there is abundant evidence for the use of first-language (L1) knowledge by bilinguals when using a second language (L2), investigation into the impact of L1 knowledge in large-scale L2 language assessments and discussion of how such impact may be controlled has received little attention in the language assessment literature. This study…
Descriptors: Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Contrastive Linguistics, English (Second Language)
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Miki Satori – Reading in a Foreign Language, 2025
This study investigated the relative contributions of English morphological and vocabulary knowledge to second language (L2) reading comprehension among 100 adult Japanese English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. The study also investigated the extent to which the roles of morphological and vocabulary knowledge in L2 reading comprehension…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Reading Comprehension, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Ta Hong Thuong – Journal of Second Language Acquisition and Teaching, 2024
This study aimed to develop a Vietnamese word recognition test for Taiwanese undergraduate students and to investigate students' performances at different learning stages. The formal test consists of 100 words as test items. With each word, test takers were asked to select the correct Vietnamese word form corresponding to the pronunciation they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Word Recognition, Vietnamese, Second Language Learning
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Nathaniel Carney – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The current study investigated 29 first-year Japanese university students' usage of an online vocabulary notebook that automatically searched eight different word and phrase lists to provide students with reference information about their self-selected vocabulary. Over the course of a 14-week period, participants read English books and articles…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
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Ratima Tianchai; Suthathip Thirakunkovit; Songsri Soranasataporn – rEFLections, 2024
This research explored the effectiveness of using the word network technique to teach English vocabulary to first graders in Thai Primary schools. The 150 top-frequency words used in three nationally-used textbooks were inventoried. The list of the words then was compared with the list proposed by the Ministry of Education, Thailand. The combined…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 1, Elementary School Students, Teacher Attitudes
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Zeynep Aksit; Sükran Saygi – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2024
Vocabulary research provides valuable information on the construct of word knowledge (WK), and suggests ways to develop language learners' lexicon, arguably, the backbone of communication. The present study explores EFL students' vocabulary learning behavior; more specifically, the aspects of WK components they intentionally focus on when learning…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Shenaut, Gregory K.; Ober, Beth A. – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Monolingual studies contrasting memory for positive versus negative emotion-laden words have generally used single-trial paradigms and have produced inconsistent results (no difference or an advantage for either positive or negative valence). However, monolingual studies with multiple presentations of stimuli have consistently found a positivity…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Native Language, Emotional Response
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Mohamad Javad Baghiat Esfahani; Saeed Ketabi – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study attempts to evaluate the effect of the corpus-based inductive teaching approach with multiple academic corpora (PICA, CAEC and Oxford Corpus of Academic English) and conventional deductive teaching approach (i.e., multiple-choice items, filling the gap, matching and underlining) on learning academic collocations by Iranian…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Teaching Methods, Advanced Students, English (Second Language)
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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
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Nur Ainil Sulaiman – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2023
A gloss refers to a short definition or explanation of the meaning of a word in a text that can assist learners in reading comprehension and vocabulary learning. This study aims to investigate how glosses in English academic texts affect the reading behaviour of ESL undergraduates while reading is taking place. In addition, it also examines the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Tsuyoshi Sato – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2021
As vocabulary plays an important part in L2 learning at the beginner level, investigation into vocabulary learning constitutes an essential part of second language acquisition research (Koda, 1989; Laufer, 1992; Meara, 1992). Assuming the case of Japanese, English education can provide a meaningful example. In addition, noting that precise…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Junior High School Students, Foreign Countries, Language Tests
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Wongsirichan, Wallapha; Wannaruk, Anchalee; Ward, Jeremy – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2022
The YN vocabulary test (YN test) is a vocabulary size test that presents test takers with a list of words and asks them to answer yes to the words they know. This test may include nonwords, i.e., imaginary words added to the test to check for guessing. However, there have been no conclusive guidelines about nonword construction. One way of…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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