The purpose of this study was to investigate the role breadth and depth vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension at Debre Markos University. A quantitative approach taken gather analyze data. Out 235 students learning college, 61 samples were randomly. To their breadth, Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT) employed. Depth Knowledge (DVK) test utilized knowledge. section English as a Foreign Langua...

This study examined the mediating roles of gender and academic field in relationship between vocabulary knowledge reading comprehension. A size test, a depth test IELTS were administered to 319 university-level students (54 males; 265 females) from three disciplines: medicine, science, arts. The findings revealed that had 2000 3000 word families, low (45.3%), poor comprehension (52.4%). Besides...

Lexical-semantic resources are fundamental building blocks in natural language processing (NLP). Frequently, they fail to cover the informal vocabulary of web users as represented in user-generated content. This paper aims at exploring folksonomies as a novel source of lexical-semantic information. It analyzes two prototypical examples of folksonomies, namely BibSonomy and Delicious, and utiliz...

Recent studies have explored English vocabulary learning in environments where students used mobile technologies for prescribed vocabulary learning tasks, or tested designed personalized learning systems to enhance student vocabulary learning for short periods of time in language related courses. Dictionary use via mobile devices has mostly been used for referential purposes. Referential use re...

This study examined the contribution of word decoding, first-language (L1) and second-language (L2) vocabulary and prior topic knowledge to L2 reading comprehension. For measuring reading comprehension we employed two different reading tasks: Woodcock Passage Comprehension and a researcher-developed content-area reading assignment (the Global Warming Test) consisting of multiple lengthy texts. ...