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Paul Sevigny; Lindsay Mack; Lance Stilp; Maiko Berger – SAGE Open, 2024
This study expands arguments calling for a more rigorous approach to high-frequency vocabulary list-based learning in EFL learning environments. Test and flashcard item designs were validated through quantitative (midterm and final test) and qualitative (survey) results to explore the impact of digital flashcards designed to build recall-level…
Descriptors: Recognition (Psychology), Recall (Psychology), Vocabulary Development, English (Second Language)
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Behzad Ghonsooly; Tahereh Hassanzadeh – Issues in Educational Research, 2019
The present study sought to investigate if an interactionist dynamic assessment differently affects the English vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL male and female learners with different cultural dimensions. Initially, 120 adult EFL intermediate learners were selected using convenience sampling from among 15 such classes. A cultural dimension…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Indo European Languages, Second Language Instruction
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Baker, Doris Luft; Stoolmiller, Mike; Good, Roland H., III; Baker, Scott K. – School Psychology Review, 2011
We empirically examined the effect of reading comprehension on passage fluency in English and Spanish in the context of Cummins interdependence hypothesis (1979) and Perfetti's blueprint of the General Components of Reading (1999). Participants were 96 second-grade English learners being taught to read in Spanish and English. Measures in both…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Reading Fluency, Structural Equation Models, School Psychologists
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Simpson-Vlach, Rita; Ellis, Nick C. – Applied Linguistics, 2010
This research creates an empirically derived, pedagogically useful list of formulaic sequences for academic speech and writing, comparable with the Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000), called the Academic Formulas List (AFL). The AFL includes formulaic sequences identified as (i) frequent recurrent patterns in corpora of written and spoken language,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Speech, Written Language, Oral Language
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Wesche, Marjorie; Paribakht, T. Sima – Canadian Modern Language Review, 1996
Provides a detailed analysis of techniques used for second language vocabulary assessment and the implied assumptions about the underlying construct of vocabulary knowledge. The article notes that existing measures of vocabulary size are uninformative as to the depth of knowledge that learners have about particular words. (56 references)…
Descriptors: Dictation, Dictionaries, Error Analysis (Language), Error Correction