this study aims to compare the effects of four types of ffi on second language vocabulary learning. to do so, the study adopted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design, including five groups, each receiving a distinct treatment. the participants were 80 fourth-grade male students ranging in age from 17 to 19. before the treatment phase, the participants took a researcher-made test of vocab...

Abstract This longitudinal study explored the roles of item- and learner-related variables in L2 learners’ development productive collocation knowledge (L1 = Dutch; German; N Learners 50). Learners’ form recall 35 target collocations was measured three times over a 3-year period. The item-related investigated were L1-L2 congruency, corpus frequency, association strength, imageability. We also p...

This paper reports a study which investigated if there was a match between students’ English vocabulary size and the vocabulary load of a locally produced textbook. The analysis of the passages of the pre-university English textbook currently in use in Iran’s education system using RANGE program indicated that in order to comprehend the texts, students need to know not only words from 2000 high...

Vocabulary knowledge plays a very important role in reading tests and reading research has consistently found a word knowledge factor on which vocabulary tests load highly. Tests of vocabulary are highly predictive of performance on tests of reading comprehension. The present paper intends to review in detail the relationships between the breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge and EFL readin...

This paper describes a study of the language used by undergraduate engineering students engaged in a civil engineering laboratory. Learner’s concepts and relationships in the area of soil consolidation were elicited in order to provide an understanding of the structural knowledge of novices and compare it with the knowledge structures of a human expert and a thesaurus tool. Concept maps and pat...

There is at present no clear consensus as to the nature of the relations between oral vocabulary and specific literacy skills. The present study distinguished between vocabulary breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge to better explain the role of oral vocabulary in various reading skills. A sample of 60 typically developing Grade 4 students was assessed on measures of receptive and expressiv...

This study investigated the relationship between students’ attitude (cognitive, affective and behavioral) towards vocabulary learning their English knowledge (breadth, depth fluency) with reference to Grade 9. It employed a correlational research design simple random sampling stratified techniques. Pearson’s r was computed examine each of three aspects breadth, fluency knowledge. The coefficien...

The overall aim of the present study is to achieve a better understanding young instructed Swedish learners’ vocabulary knowledge in L3 French, by examining various aspects depth. Previous research has shown that this learner group’s size increases systematically, and at relatively fast pace, from grade 6 through 9 (i.e., first year studies French onwards; age 12 15). However, tests only give q...

Morphological awareness (MA) is the ability to recognize words, identify association between lexically attached parts of a word and create new lexical forms. instruction mediates acquisition words is, therefore, crucial for developing morphological vocabulary knowledge. Currently, receptive-productive continuum MA remains unclear, especially in an EFL context. This quasi-experimental study inve...