This article considers the problem of how to bring foreign language students with a limited vocabulary knowledge, consisting mainly of high-frequency words, to the point where they are able to adequately comprehend authentic texts in a target domain or genre. It proposes bridging the vocabulary gap by first determining which word families account for 95% of the target domain's running words, an...

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...

Literature is replete with the studies focusing on the role of vocabulary knowledge in second language receptive skills. However, the relationship between the aspects of vocabulary knowledge and productive skills in general, and the speaking performance in particular has remained scanty in the related literature. This paper examined the relationship between knowledge of L2 vocabulary size at di...

The academic achievement gap across socioeconomic status extends from school readiness throughout formal schooling, and academic success predicts later life outcomes. Recent research has turned to predictors of school readiness mathematics ability, as it has been shown to be the greatest predictor of later academic achievement. Previous studies have contested the strongest predictors of math ab...

This paper proposes an ad hoc retrieval method for spoken documents that uses a statistical translation technique. After transcribing the spoken documents by using a Large-Vocabulary Continuous Speech Recognition (LVCSR) decoder, a text-based ad hoc retrieval method can be directly applied to the transcribed documents. However, recognition errors will signi cantly degrade the retrieval performa...

This research revealed both similarities and striking differences in early language proficiency among infants from a broad range of advantaged and disadvantaged families. English-learning infants (n = 48) were followed longitudinally from 18 to 24 months, using real-time measures of spoken language processing. The first goal was to track developmental changes in processing efficiency in relatio...

In spontaneous Punjabi speech model, the speech is basically non-planed and non designed, there are generally depicted by repetitions, preservation, wrong start, half-spoken words and non-planned words, silence gap etc. In a system of Punjabi speech detection including vocabulary, the identification needs the evaluation among the audio signal of the utterance and the variety of utterances of th...

State-of-the-art content sharing platforms often require users to assign tags to pieces of media in order to make them easily retrievable. Since this task is sometimes perceived as tedious or boring, annotations can be sparse. Commenting on the other hand is a frequently used means of expressing user opinion towards shared media items. This work makes use of time series analyses in order to inf...