Kinki University, Japan [email protected] Recent research has shown that pairedassociate learning is an effective way to acquire second language vocabulary. However, much research in the field has measured small-scale vocabulary learning. This is due to the methods which learners used to conduct paired-associate learning: paper flash cards. This project sought to measure vocabulary growth ov...

The present research sought to investigate the effects of different games on IranianEFL learners in second grade high school's vocabulary improvement. Seventy eight malesecond grade students of Emam ali high school in Avaj participated in this research. Theresearch was conducted in five sessions in near two months, each session lasted aboutforty five minutes. The subjects were randomly assigned...

Vocabulary is fundamental to reading. As elementary students cross over from learning to read into reading to learn, vocabulary knowledge becomes increasingly important. The massive amount of vocabulary a student must learn precludes large amounts of time spent on any single word (Carver 1994, Schwanenflugel et al. 1997), except perhaps for some words that the student will read and write many t...

Word frequency and semantic priming effects are among the most robust effects in visual word recognition, and it has been generally assumed that these two variables produce interactive effects in lexical decision performance, with larger priming effects for low-frequency targets. The results from four lexical decision experiments indicate that the joint effects of semantic priming and word freq...

A growing body of research has documented effects of phonotactic probability on young children's nonword repetition. This study extends this research in 2 ways. First, it compares nonword repetitions by 40 young children with phonological disorders with those by 40 same-age peers with typical phonological development on a nonword repetition task in which the frequency of embedded diphone sequen...

We establish the following characteristics of the task of perspective classification: (a) using term frequencies in a document does not improve classification achieved with absence/presence features; (b) for datasets allowing the relevant comparisons, a small number of top features is found to be as effective as the full feature set and indispensable for the best achieved performance, testifyin...

This research was aimed to know : “There significant correlation between students’ frequency of watching English movie and vocabulary knowledge at SMAN 15 Bandar Lampung in 2020/2021 academic year. The researcher methodology this a quantitative. population the twelve grade students year, number 35 students. gave questionnaire movie, test knowledeg. data that has been gathered analysed by Pearso...

this article generates the first persian academic word list (pawl) which comprises the most frequently used academic vocabulary in persian academic texts. the pawl was compiled from a corpus of 927,008 running words from academic resources. two principles of range and frequency of word families guided the selection and arrangement of the word list. the corpus included seven books and one hundre...