This study aimed at investigating the effect of Dynamic Assessment on vocabulary learning of Iranian EFL learners. Although it is widely acknowledged that this type of assessment can prove to be very effective for different aspects of language instruction, not much consideration has been given to DA of vocabulary. This study was an attempt to determine if DA procedures would improve students’ v...

Purpose Wide interindividual variability characterizes language development in the general and at-risk populations of up to 3 years age. We adopted a complex approach that considers multiple aspects lexical grammatical skills identify profiles low-risk preterm full-term children. also investigated biological environmental predictors relations between cognitive motor skills. Method enrolled 200 ...

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...

PURPOSE This study investigated whether past tense use could differentiate children with language impairment (LI) from their typically developing (TD) peers when English is children's second language (L2) and whether L2 children's past tense profiles followed the predictions of Bybee's (2007) usage-based network model. METHOD A group of L2 children with LI (L2-LI) and a matched group of L2-TD...

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, ...

abstract the present study aims at analyzing efl learners’ attitudes towards motivating factors in learning vocab-ulary. a mixed-methods approach was used to conduct the study. in the qualitative analysis, iranian efl learners’ attitudes towards learning vocabulary were investigated through a semi-structured interview en-compassing 36 participants. subsequently, a 56-item ‘motivation for voca...

The article aims to recreate the tourist view based on observation of lexical layer texts in quantitative terms. subject research is most frequent lexis excerpted form an frequency list from Listy z podróży po Włoszech by Konstanty Gaszyński. collected material consists 300 words. common vocabulary was grouped into 9 semantic-lexical circles and analyzed using tools cultural linguistics. has in...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of blended learning and multimedia software on iranian esp students' vocabulary learning. to this end, 120 iranian esp learners were assigned to two groups: the experimental and control groups. the experimental group received instructions through multimedia software while the control group received traditional instructions. the data were c...

Most bio text-mining efforts so far have focused on identification of biological, molecular and chemical entities from the literature to support knowledge acquisition and discovery in the life sciences. There are also a growing number of bioinformatics services and tools available. This raises the challenging problem of semi-automated annotation, documentation and discovery of services suitable...