This paper discusses the design and the development of the multilingual e-learning materials covering 17 different languages. The project is now being carried out by the Graduate School of Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) under the auspices of Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The system covers four modules such as pronunciation, dialogue, grammar...

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...

College English teaching in China aims at developing students’ communicative competence, in which vocabulary size plays an important role. According to Basic Requirements in the College English Syllabus (1999), Chinese university students’ vocabulary size should be 4,200 words. From investigation and a study of the research literature, the author finds that the deficiency of College English tea...

The rapid development of science and technology has created new condition for the teaching methods of higher English education, which has greatly enriched the English teaching resources and has promoted the renovation of English teaching methods. As a second to none common language in the world, English has always been playing an important role in international communication, and has been value...

This paper reviews software design guidelines from the field of Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) and empirical results from the field of vocabulary acquisition. We categorize the empirical evidence in terms of three key aspects of instructional software for vocabulary teaching: task type, media and scheduling. We describe how design of an online adaptive vocabulary teaching system inc...

This thesis has focused on the study on teaching vocabulary through constructing sense relations of words. An experimental teaching is carried out to prove the feasibility and effectiveness of a new way of vocabulary teaching-the integrated approach. The higher scores of the experimental class on the immediate tests and the smaller loss of retention on the delayed test appear to indicate that t...

this study focused on the effect of teaching collocations on the awareness of two affective dimensions, evaluation and potency dimensions, of deep vocabulary knowledge as well as the general vocabulary knowledge of efl students. sixty intermediate efl female adult learners participated in this study; they were chosen among 90 students through the pet and a general vocabulary knowledge test. the...

the current study is an attempt to investigate the particular role learners' vocabulary knowledge plays in their reading comprehension performance. it intends to determine whether breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are related to efl learners' reading comprehension, and to investigate which one of these variables, that is, depth or breadth of vocabulary knowledge, makes a more important ...

Learning a foreign language entails learner to develop special effort or ways of learning acquire the target effectively. This can be achieved through using appropriate strategies. Thus, this article looks at relationship between vocabulary teaching methods and strategies employed by students teachers in secondary schools. Mixed design was used collect quantitative qualitative data. Data were c...