Nagy (1988) states that vocabulary is a prerequisite factor in comprehension. Drawing upon a reductionist approach and having in mind the prospects for material development, this study aimed at creating an English for Academic Purposes Word List (EAPWL). The corpus of this study was compiled from a corpus containing 6479 pages of texts, 2,081,678 million tokens (running words) and 63825 types (...

Incorporating gamification into foreign language learning is a successful and effective strategy for improving learners' level of skills helping them to master communication with others. This study aimed determine the impact Kahoot, gamification-based technological application, on English vocabulary academic purposes motivation. Thus, 60 students were selected from among university enrolled in ...

• The rate of citation increases at each level undergraduate study. Non-integral is far commoner than integral all levels, in disciplines. Undergraduates Physical Sciences cite less those Arts and Humanities, Life Social Sciences. more Although a great deal has been written about expert research writing, novice students’ acquisition skills for the purposes argumentation, little known typical us...

The Universidad de la República, in Uruguay, offers reading comprehension English courses within the career of dentistry for students to access information this language. study sought analyze fulfilment course’s aims and test hypothesis that greater vocabulary possess, better they will be able understand written texts. A mixed approach, based on interviews a class survey, was used. Data showed ...