A comparison has been made of productive vocabulary in some normal university English majors’ theses in China and American final-year undergraduates’ papers. The research demonstrates that with family as the measurement unit, Chinese students proportionally use fewer words of the 1 st , 8th to 10th 1000 frequency level words than American students, while in terms of the 2nd to 4th 1000 frequenc...

The present study, by use of questionnaire and vocabulary tests, has investigated the foreign language vocabulary learning situation of 481 undergraduates in terms of their perspective of vocabulary learning, strategy use and vocabulary size. Based on the questionnaire investigation and vocabulary level tests, the characteristics of the subjects’ foreign language vocabulary learning have been o...

What is the role of the linguistic environment in children’s early word learning? Here we provide a preliminary analysis of one child’s linguistic development, using a portion of the high-density longitudinal data collected for the Human Speechome Project. We focus particularly on the development of the child’s productive vocabulary from the age of 9 to 24 months and the relationship between th...

Purpose: This preliminary investigation is a longitudinal study of fast mapping skills in normally developing children, 16 to 18 months of age. The purpose was to examine the effects of practice on the accessibility of words in lexical memory. Method: Eight children were taught the names of 24 unfamiliar objects over 12 weekly training sessions. The amount of practice children had with individu...

Gender is a key factor in the field of Second Language Acquisition (SLA), where its impact on language learning strategies (Aslan, 2009; Oxford & Nyikos, 1989; Sumarni Rachmawaty, 2019) and productive vocabulary (Canga Alonso Arribas García, 2014; Fleckenstein, 2018; Jiménez Catalán Moreno Espinosa, 2004) has been investigated. However, to our knowledge, there lack research gender relation ...

Knowledge of productive vocabulary is something critical in learning Arabic Malaysia. A precise measurement tool needed order to know the level students knowledge vocabulary.Therefore, this research aims validate Productive Vocabulary instrument at IPT (i-PVKA IPT). Through a quantitative approach, test was distributed 40 final year Selangor International Islamic University College (KUIS) and S...

The present study investigated the developmental interrelationships between play, gesture use and spoken language development in children aged 18–31 months. The children completed two tasks: (i) a structured measure of pretend (or ‘symbolic’) play and (ii) a measure of vocabulary knowledge in which children have been shown to gesture. Additionally, their productive spoken language knowledge was...

the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

Seven- and eight-year-old deaf children and hearing children of equivalent reading age were presented with a number of tasks designed to assess reading, spelling, productive vocabulary, speechreading, phonological awareness, short-term memory, and nonverbal intelligence. The two groups were compared for similarities and differences in the levels of performance and in the predictors of literacy....