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Al-deaij, Ghada Ali – Online Submission, 2020
This study investigated the amount of vocabulary that Saudi EFL teachers have in Saudi Arabia. The participants included 75 Saudi EFL males' teachers and 121 Saudi EFL females' teachers, who were chosen randomly from various Saudi public schools. Moreover, the study utilized a Vocabulary Levels Test VLT, which was constructed by Webb, Sasao, and…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Vocabulary Skills, Language Teachers, Second Language Learning
Abbass, Mazin – 1976
The study analyzes, for readability and difficulty, the language of 50 commonly used application forms. The forms were compared with respect to length, readability, t-unit density, and word-length variables. Forms were also compared against two word-frequency lists. Results show that many of the words appearing often on forms do not appear on the…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Language Research, Readability, Readability Formulas
Aspen Systems Corp., Germantown, MD. – 1978
Contained are listings of descriptors used to index the literature in the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) documentation data base, and to store and retrieve information about the literature for users of the service. Term selection is determined by the vocabulary used in the documents input into the system, the frequency of term…
Descriptors: Crime, Criminology, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Singleton, Cleavonne – 1976
This study compared the vocabulary of the period from 1943 to 1945 to the vocabulary of 1975. In addition to a direct comparison of word use, an indirect comparison was made using Thorndike's word list in the "Teacher's Word Book" (1931). The 1975 vocabulary, based on frequency of word appearance, was derived from 93 speeches made by students in…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Doctoral Dissertations