many textbooks include semantically related words and sometimes teachers add synonyms, antonyms, etc. to the words in order to present new vocabulary items without questioning the possible effects. this study sought to investigate the effect of teaching vocabulary through synonym, semantically unrelated, and hyponym sets based on higa’s (1963) proposed continuum. a total of 120 iranian intermed...

While it is well known that the mth order 5-spline Nm(x) with integer knots generates a multiresolution analysis, • • • C V_x c V0 C • ■ • , with the with order of approximation, we prove that i//(x) := Ú1mJ¡{2x 1), where L2m(x) denotes the (2m)th order fundamental cardinal interpolatory spline, generates the orthogonal complementary wavelet spaces Wk . Note that for m = 1 , when the ß-spline N...

This special issue devoted to the bilingual mental lexicon focuses upon the consequences of second language (L2) vocabulary learning for bilingual lexicosemantic representation. Acquisition and representation are inseparable. So theories of development that are blind to the nature of the mature cognitive system are lacking, 1 as are theories of representation that ignore how this came about. 2 ...

Pedagogically, the issue of similarities and/or differences between mother tongue and foreign language is one interesting areas second/foreign acquisition learning. Therefore, this study aims at exploring in which way Turkish (L1) influences English (L2) learning through perspectives EFL undergraduate students, whereby main focus on extent possible effects (L2). A qualitative approach was emplo...

______________________ This study examines the relationship among access to reading materials, print exposure, and vocabulary acquisition among language minority (LM) students in United States. Access to print, print exposure, and English vocabulary knowledge were measured through the use of surveys and signal-detection checklists with a group of Spanish/English bilingual high school students (...

The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of academic vocabulary knowledge and academic listening self-concept to the academic listening comprehension of Iranian Engineering students. The participants of this study were 147 undergraduate students at the Iran University of Science and Technology. A revised version of the academic self-concept questionnaire developed by Liu and ...

Sound discrimination helps babies acquire the vocabulary, morphology and syntax of their first language. Researchers have also shown a relationship between sound discrimination ability and second language (L2) experience. In this research, we investigated the correlation between the sound discrimination ability of lowintermediate level, adult Japanese learners of English and various measures of...