This study explored the relationship between EFL learners’ vocabulary size, lexical coverage of the text and reading comprehension texts (narrative & argumentative genres). To this end, 120 male and female out of 180 students studying at Talesh Azad University were selected based on their performance on the Nelson Proficiency Test. A Nelson reading proficiency test was also administered in orde...

reading comprehension plays a central role in nonfiction general english university courses in different efl situations and one of the important factors affecting it is vocabulary size. accordingly, the present study aimed at investigating the effect of unknown vocabulary size on efl learners’ reading comprehension. to this end, 40 tefl freshmen were ed to participate in this study on the basis...

the importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of english for academic purposes (eap) because non-english majors who require reading english texts in their fields of study have to expand their english vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary esl/efl learners. since academic vocabulary instruction in iranian universities is realized through the use of gene...

In this paper we re-investigate the time conditioned search (TCS) method in comparison to the well known word conditioned search (WCS), and analyze its applicability on state-ofthe-art large vocabulary continuous speech recognition tasks. In contrast to current standard approaches, time conditioned search offers theoretical advantages particularly in combination with huge vocabularies and huge ...

Despite the abundance of research investigating general and academic vocabularies and developing dozens of word lists, few studies have compared academic vocabulary with general service word lists such as conversation vocabulary. Many EAP researchers assume that university students need to know all the words in West’s (1953) General Service List (GSL) as a prerequisite to academic words (e.g., ...

The importance of vocabulary learning has been underlined in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) because non-English majors who require reading English texts in their fields of study have to expand their English vocabulary knowledge much more efficiently than ordinary ESL/EFL learners. Since academic vocabulary instruction in Iranian universities is realized through the use of Gene...

A considerable number of robust vocabularies and thesauri have been developed for the healthcare and biomedical domain. No single vocabulary, however; provides complete coverage of the information needs from a public health perspective. The results of an investigation of vocabulary sources for the development of a comprehensive controlled vocabulary for the public health domain at the Centers f...

Current automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems have to limit their vocabulary size depending on available memory size, expected processing time, and available text data for building a vocabulary and a language model. Although the vocabularies of ASR systems are designed to achieve high coverage for the expected input data, it cannot be avoided that input data includes out-of-vocabulary (OOV...

OBJECTIVE To determine the content coverage in SNOMED CT to represent the multidisciplinary terms and concepts in the domain for complex chronic conditions. METHODS An evaluation of the coverage of multidisciplinary health factors in SNOMED CT for the complex and chronic condition, multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is conducted in the study. The methodology included a retrospective audit of...