Vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size are among the main factors that help determine how students learn second language vocabulary. The present study was an attempt to exploring the relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and Arabic vocabulary size of 742 pre-university in Religious High School (SMKA) and Government-Aided Religious School (SABK). TAV test and Schmitt’s ...

Currently, health care costs associated with aging at home can be prohibitive if individuals require continual or periodic supervision or assistance because of Alzheimer’s disease. These costs, normally associated with human caregivers, can be mitigated to some extent given automated systems that mimic some of their functions. In this paper, we present inaugural work towards producing a generic...

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Collaborative indexing systems have attracted an increasing amount of attention over the last three years. One fundamental limitation to such a system is the uncontrolled nature of its vocabulary, as this consists of terms users freely choose to index resources. As a result, the vocabulary can be poorly structured, making it difficult to harvest knowledge from the user community. Pre-defined te...

The Reading Teacher, 62(5), pp. 384–392 © 2009 International Reading Association DOI:10.1598/RT.62.5.2 ISSN: 0034-0561 print / 1936-2714 online The most plausible explanation for vocabulary’s connection to better reading ability is that vocabulary is more than words. It is knowledge. To know a word’s meaning is to know what a word represents and to begin to understand the network of concepts th...

OBJECTIVE Permanent hearing impairment has a life-long impact on children and its early identification is important for language development. A newborn hearing screening (NHS) program has started in Okayama Prefecture, Japan, in 1999 to detect hearing impairment immediately after birth. We aim to examine the effect of this screening program on vocabulary development in pre-school children in a ...

Task-based language learning using the benefits of online computer-assisted language learning (CALL) can be effective for rapid vocabulary expansion, especially when target vocabulary has been pre-arranged into bilingual categories under simpler, common Semantic Field

This study aimed to investigate the effect of using vocabulary software on the vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. Participants of the study were 54 intermediate-level students (23 males and 31 females) learning English as a foreign language in Mehr Institute in Izeh who were selected after taking the Nelson English Language Test as a proficiency test. They were randomly divided into t...