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Ehsanzadeh, S. J. – Language Education & Assessment, 2020
This study measures the threshold level of depth of word knowledge in L2 incidental learning and reading comprehension. I administered the Word Associates Test (WAT; Read, 2004) to measure depth of word knowledge. Based on participants' scores on the WAT, they were divided into three proficiency groups: high proficiency (HP), intermediate…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Development, Incidental Learning, Second Language Learning
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Xu, Yi; Zhang, Jie – Language Teaching Research, 2022
Lexical inference through reading is considered an important method for vocabulary building; however, empirical research has not consistently offered strong evidence of the application of lexical inference in second language vocabulary learning. A recently burgeoning line of research focuses on second language (L2) lexical inference of compounds…
Descriptors: Chinese, Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Yunjiu, Luo; Wei, Wei; Zheng, Ying – SAGE Open, 2022
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to reduce the workload for the second language (L2) teachers and test developers. We propose two AI distractor-generating methods for creating Chinese vocabulary items: semantic similarity and visual similarity. Semantic similarity refers to antonyms and synonyms, while visual similarity…
Descriptors: Chinese, Vocabulary Development, Artificial Intelligence, Undergraduate Students
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Deconinck, Julie; Boers, Frank; Eyckmans, June – Language Teaching Research, 2017
If known words can be defined psycholinguistically as "form-meaning mappings", the present article investigates whether prompting learners to evaluate whether the form of a new second language (L2) word fits its meaning generates "mapping elaborations" that aid recall. Thirty Dutch-speaking upper-intermediate learners of…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Concept Mapping, Indo European Languages, Pretests Posttests