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 ...

Developing young children's vocabulary is essential for later reading success; thus, early childhood classrooms require a comprehensive approach that teaches academic vocabulary. Yet even providing children with child-friendly definitions of sophisticated words can be challenge. First, the authors outline components program children. Second, they review research evidence on importance direct in...

The academic section of the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT-Ac) and Academic (AVT) both assess meaning-recognition knowledge written receptive vocabulary, deemed central for engagement in activities. Depending on purpose context testing, either tests can be appropriate, but research pedagogical purposes, it is important to able compare scores achieved two between administrations within similar cont...

Teaching materials developed in-house are commonly used in EAP courses; however, research on their linguistic content, which can have important pedagogical implications, is scarce. This study examines the occurrence and repetition of general academic vocabulary, operationalised as Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) (Gardner & Davies, 2014), printed teaching a presessional course at UK university. T...