Large vocabulary continuous speech recognition of inflective languages, such as Czech, Russian or Serbo-Croatian, is heavily deteriorated by excessive out of vocabulary rate. In this paper, we tackle the problem of vocabulary selection, language modeling and pruning for inflective languages. We show that by explicit reduction of out of vocabulary rate we can achieve significant improvements in ...

  A growing body of research has indicated that students of ESL/EFL are reticent and unwilling to be engaged in oral activities in English lessons. Communicative language ability includes speaking ability, so vocabulary knowledge plays an integral role in speaking a language. However, there have been few studies examining the degree to which vocabulary knowledge affects speaking ability. The pr...

This paper reports on a study of changes in vocabulary learning strategies and how these changes are related to vocabulary development. One hundred Chinese EFL students studying in a six-month pre-university English language enhancement programme in Singapore answered a vocabulary learning questionnaire at the beginning and end of the programme. The changes in their vocabulary learning strategi...