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Vocabulary knowledge is an essential factor in the development of proficiency in another language. However, English and other languages have often been taught without a clear focus on vocabulary. This has unfortunately m…
Since its conception in the 1950s, the Lexical Availability Task (LAT) has steadily gained prominence as an assessment tool in language teaching and learning, perhaps due to the fact that it not only provides a useful in…
The present study seeks to fulfill the following three objectives: (1) to examine the controlled productive vocabulary of unimodal EFL learners, (2) to identify their perceptual learning style preferences, and (3) to det…
In the present study, a selection of two adapted versions addressed to basic and intermediate levels (A1-B1) of the classic novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens will be compared in terms of their cultural vocabular…
This study has two objectives. The first is to ascertain whether there exists a relationship between the level of productive vocabulary and lexical availability in English as a foreign language. The second is to explore…
The development of corpus methods has led to a deepened understanding of the patterning of vocabulary, with positive impacts on learner dictionaries, vocabulary profiling and text analysis, as well as hands-on language l…
The increasing popularity of listening to podcasts for the purpose of improving English among Armenian teenagers raises the question as to what impact this might have on incidental vocabulary learning. A positive impact…
This paper presents a practice-based action research study in which, based on a thorough analysis of the students’ vocabulary knowledge and learning objectives, a rich context is created for the acquisition of English vo…
Development of L2 learner's collocational competence is among the most complex aspects of language acquisition. It is strongly influenced by external factors such as instruction, L2 language proficiency, L1 influence, as…
In this interview, Paul Nation answers a number of pertinent questions at length. The questions address the origin of his interest in vocabulary, in addition to his views on ways in which vocabulary is learned, taught, a…
