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Kalantari, Reza; Gholami, Javad – International Journal of Instruction, 2017
This longitudinal case study explored Iranian EFL learners' lexical complexity (LC) through the lenses of Dynamic Systems Theory (DST). Fifty independent essays written by five intermediate to advanced female EFL learners in a TOEFL iBT preparation course over six months constituted the corpus of this study. Three Coh-Metrix indices (Graesser,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Longitudinal Studies
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Gholami, Javad; Khezrlou, Sima – CATESOL Journal, 2014
This article overviews research on second language vocabulary instruction with a specific focus on semantic and thematic vocabulary-clustering types. The theoretical benefits associated with both the semantic and thematic approaches, as well as the potential problems associated with them, are discussed. The conclusion drawn is that reinforcing the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Second Language Learning, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Instruction