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Designing appropriate materials and activities to enhance vocabulary learning is one of the primary goals of language courses. Among the claims about efficient pedagogical tasks is the Involvement Load Hypothesis (Laufer & Hulstijn, 2001) according to which vocabulary development is contingent on the amount of cognitive process a task involves. Building on the previous research on this hypothes...

9 Abstract. More than a century of research shows that increasing the gap between study episodes using the same material can enhance retention, 10 yet little is known about how this so-called distributed practice effect unfolds over nontrivial periods. In two three-session laboratory studies, we 11 examined the effects of gap on retention of foreign vocabulary, facts, and names of visual object...

OBJECTIVES To assess vocabulary development in children following cochlear implantation and to evaluate the effect of age at implantation on performance. DESIGN Retrospective study (mean follow-up, 3(1/2) years). SETTING Tertiary center. PATIENTS Children with prelingual deafness provided with a cochlear implant between 1988 and 1999, who serially performed the Peabody Picture Vocabulary ...

negotiation, as an interactional strategy and proactive focus on form (fof) have received increased attention in second language research. the combination of negotiation and proactive fof, however, has not been examined in relation to l2 vocabulary learning. to address this gap, the present study investigated how the amount of negotiation and proactive fof impacted learners’ vocabulary knowledg...

This study examined the role of output-first presentation of vocabulary tasks in noticing lexical items and enhancing vocabulary knowledge of EFL learners. The participants were 103 elementary level female Iranian EFL learners who were randomly divided into three groups: input-only, inputoutput, and output-input groups. After all participants took a placement test and a vocabulary pretest, the ...

Keyphrase extraction aims to select a set of terms from a document as a short summary of the document. Most methods extract keyphrases according to their statistical properties in the given document. Appropriate keyphrases, however, are not always statistically significant or even do not appear in the given document. This makes a large vocabulary gap between a document and its keyphrases. In th...

1 We discuss the use of heuristic search in a graph of cases and other domain knowledge to supply support for an argument. We contend that for legal argument, a gap exists between the vocabulary of constraints upon arguments and the indexing vocabulary for cases and other domain resource knowledge. We suggest best-first search of a graph of cases and other domain knowledge as a means to partial...

Negotiation, as an interactional strategy and proactive focus on form (FoF) have received increased attention in second language research. The combination of negotiation and proactive FoF, however, has not been examined in relation to L2 vocabulary learning. To address this gap, the present study investigated how the amount of negotiation and proactive FoF impacted learners’ vocabulary knowledg...