Vocabulary Richness Measure in Genres

The Relationship between Iranian EFL Learners' Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary Size and Lexical Coverage of the Text: The Case of Narrative and Argumentative Genres

This study explored the relationship between EFL learners’ vocabulary size, lexical coverage of the text and reading comprehension texts (narrative & argumentative genres). To this end, 120 male and female out of 180 students studying at Talesh Azad University were selected based on their performance on the Nelson Proficiency Test. A Nelson reading proficiency test was also administered in orde...

Morphological Predictability of Unseen Words Using Computational Analogy

We address the problem of predicting unseen words by relying on the organization of the vocabulary of a language as exhibited by paradigm tables. We present a pipeline to automatically produce paradigm tables from all the words contained in a text. We measure how many unseen words from an unseen test text can be predicted using the paradigm tables obtained from a training text. Experiments are ...

Another Perspective on Vocabulary Richness

This article examines the usefulness of vocabulary richness for authorship attribution and tests the assumption that appropriate measures of vocabulary richness can capture an author’s distinctive style or identity. After briefly discussing perceived and actual vocabulary richness, I show that doubling and combining texts affects some measures in computationally predictable but conceptually sur...

Two Different Communication Genres and Implications for Vocabulary Development and Learning to Read Running Head: Speech and Print

The Impact of Teachers' Training on the Reliability of Tests and Assessments in Governmental and Non-governmental Sections

Assessment is considered as one of the fundamental elements in the field of foreign language acquisition. In order for communication take place, adequate number of vocabulary is needed to be known by the learners. The salient role of vocabulary in the field of foreign language acquisition resulted in the publication of several hundreds of papers and dozens of books. Due to the dominant role of ...