This study examined the effect of working memory training on vocabulary recall and retention ofIranian EFL learners using dual N-back task technique. To this end, 50 EFL learners at IslamicAzad University of Shoushtar were randomly assigned to the experimental (n = 25) and control (n= 25) groups. Before the treatment, a vocabulary test was administered to the participants to assessthe participa...

presenting a brief description of bilingualism and its correlation with cognitive development and 3rd language learning, the present research primarily aims to compare the knowledge of english vocabulary and grammar in a sample of monolingual and bilingual high school students (fourth graders) of fars and khuzestan provinces in iran. to fulfill this objective, 448 monolingual and bilingual stud...

In this study, the relation between primary teachers’ actual disciplinary knowledge and teachers’ perceived disciplinary knowledge in three distinct areas of reading instruction (phonics, fluency/ vocabulary/comprehension, and assessment/intervention), as well as the relation between teachers’ experience and teachers’ background with these variables is investigated. Participants include Portugu...

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 ...

This study aims to compare the effects of four types of FFI on second language vocabulary learning. To do so, the study adopted a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design, including five groups, each receiving a distinct treatment. The participants were 80 fourth-grade male students ranging in age from 17 to 19. Before the treatment phase, the participants took a researcher-made test of vocab...

To remedy the paucity of studies on the relationship between vocabulary knowledge and speaking proficiency, we examine the degree to which second language (L2) speaking proficiency can be predicted by the size, depth, and speed of L2 vocabulary among novice to intermediate Japanese learners of English. Studies 1 and 2 administered vocabulary tests and a speaking test to 224 and 87 L2 learners, ...

Purpose – This paper aims to report on an empirical case study, (single case multi-site) employing both a ‘‘hard’’ and ‘‘soft’’ method. The tangible, visible component of the study was the production of a database whose fields were to be the source of tacit knowledge emergence. Design/methodology/approach – The proposition was that the possibility for the capture of tacit knowledge was subject ...

For efficiency considerations, state-of-theart neural machine translation (NMT) requires the vocabulary to be restricted to a limited-size set of several thousand symbols. This is highly problematic when translating into inflected or compounding languages. A typical remedy is the use of subword units, where words are segmented into smaller components. Byte pair encoding, a purely corpus-based a...

The purpose of this paper is to provide evidence to support direct vocabulary intervention practices for primary school-age children with language impairment (LI). A rationale for providing direct vocabulary intervention for children with LI is outlined by reviewing typical and atypical vocabulary acquisition, evidence of instructional strategies from research in mainstream and special educatio...