the current study is an attempt to investigate the particular role learners' vocabulary knowledge plays in their reading comprehension performance. it intends to determine whether breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are related to efl learners' reading comprehension, and to investigate which one of these variables, that is, depth or breadth of vocabulary knowledge, makes a more important ...

Traditionally, in estimating indexes of lexical richness, we must choose a mathematical formula on a priori grounds. Because this choice can have untoward consequences, we propose a different methodology. More specifically, we derive theoretically the indexes of lexical richness interest by introducing a new methodology, which is based on the elasticity of vocabulary (= V) with respect to text ...

In the present article some new aspects of word frequency distributions are presented, namely the h-point, the k-point, the m-point, the n-point, the Lorenz curve and Gini’s coefficient, all of which characterise some properties of texts. Their relationship to the measurement of vocabulary richness is scrutinized. It is an attempt at transferring some views from other domains of science to ling...

The purpose of the present study was to identify any significant relationship between critical thinking ability, L2 vocabulary knowledge, and L2 vocabulary learning strategies of Iranian EFL learners. To this aim, the productive vocabulary levels test was administered to measure the learner’s L2 vocabulary knowledge and observe homogeneity in terms of vocabulary knowledge. At the second stage, ...

The study reported here examines the English language knowledge and performance of bilingual school children of Middle School age in Britain, in particular their acquisition and use of vocabulary. One of the chief premises of the research is that pupils from bilingual minority ethnic backgrounds suffer a major disadvantage while learning from the National Curriculum because they lack the necess...

Research in the area of Large Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) for Indian languages has not seen the level of advancement as in English since there is a dearth of large scale speech and language corpora even today. Tamil is one among the four major Dravidian languages spoken in southern India. One of the characteristics of Tamil is that it is morphologically very rich. This qual...

The study reported here examines the English language knowledge and performance of bilingual school children of Middle School age in Britain, in particular their acquisition and use of vocabulary. One of the chief premises of the research is that pupils from bilingual minority ethnic backgrounds suffer a major disadvantage while learning from the National Curriculum because they lack the necess...

The study reported here examines the English language knowledge and performance of bilingual school children of Middle School age in Britain, in particular their acquisition and use of vocabulary. One of the chief premises of the research is that pupils from bilingual minority ethnic backgrounds suffer a major disadvantage while learning from the National Curriculum because they lack the necess...

The study reported here examines the English language knowledge and performance of bilingual school children of Middle School age in Britain, in particular their acquisition and use of vocabulary. One of the chief premises of the research is that pupils from bilingual minority ethnic backgrounds suffer a major disadvantage while learning from the National Curriculum because they lack the necess...