Productive Vocabulary Knowledge of ESL Learners

Usman, Abdulmalik; Abdullahi, Dahiru Musa

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“…(Misbah, Mohamad, Yunus, & Ya'acob, 2017) where their findings conclude that students' weakness in writing is due to lack of vocabulary (Usman & Abdullahi, 2018). Several recent studies on student lexicon also revealed that productive vocabulary is predictor of writing quality of second language learners of English (Usman & Abdullahi, 2018). These studies reported similar findings of earlier studies on the relationship between writing quality and students' lexicon (Astika 1993;eg.Engber 1995;Laufer & Nation 1995;Staehr 2008;Olinghouse & Wilson 2013).…”

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confidence: 55%

“…However previous studies on the depth and breath of students' lexicon revealed that students' lexicon is limited, ( Mokhtar, Mohd Rawian, & Singh, 2016;Usman & Abdullahi ,2018) and did not reached the lexical threshold recommended in the previous research (Staehr, 2008;Douglas, 2013).…”

Section: Lexical Items In Academic Languagementioning

confidence: 68%

“…Many studies were done to investigate the factors that contribute to difficulties in learning English. (Misbah, Mohamad, Yunus, & Ya'acob, 2017) where their findings conclude that students' weakness in writing is due to lack of vocabulary (Usman & Abdullahi, 2018). Several recent studies on student lexicon also revealed that productive vocabulary is predictor of writing quality of second language learners of English (Usman & Abdullahi, 2018).…”

Section: Introducationmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…This finding also revealed that the students in the study were not ready to face the challenging demand of academic environment and the lack of lexicon would hinder the students to complete and perform academic tasks successfully. The poor lexicon would bring to the conclusion that the teaching and learning approach needs to be improved to enhance the students' lexical development (Mokhtar et al 2016;Usman & Abdullahi 2018). Therefore, vocabulary intervention should be introduced to ensure the students are prepared with large lexicon to deal with academic writing tasks.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Small lexicon is the biggest obstacle that hindered students from successfully acquiring language skills (Misbah et al, 2017;Usman & Abdullahi, 2018).Limited lexicon also prevents students from writing good academic work as their writings lack of lexical diversity and contain less lexical sophistication which are important elements that are judged in their writing. Ideas are not smoothly presented as students are struggling to look for accurate lexical items that can represent their ideas coherently and performing their academic tasks.…”

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The Effects of Lexical Profiling Tools on Academic Writing Performance

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Rawian

2020

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Advancement in computer technology and corpus linguistics has produced lexical profiling tools which provide opportunity for learners’ corpus to be examined. This study investigated the effects of lexical profiling tools on academic writing and the CEFR levels of the writings. 68 diploma students took part in this experimental study using Timed Informative Writing Test (TIWT). The lexical profiling tools used in the study were English Vocabulary Profile, textinspector.com and Text Analyzer. The results revealed that the students in the experimental group which used the lexical tools perform better in academic writing test and CEFR level than the control group which used the course module. Thus, these tools could help the students to be independent learners and improve their academic writing performance. Keywords: Lexical Profiling Tools, Academic Writing, Lexical knowledge

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confidence: 99%

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2020

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English Vocabulary Levels of University Engineering Students in a Sino-NZ Collaboration

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Rosa

2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Education (TALE)

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Quantitative Evaluation of Vocabulary Emotional Color in Language Teaching

Caihong

2022

Occupational Therapy International

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Objective. In real communication, the context is complex and changeable and the color and meaning of some words will wander in the context. The development and changes of words are more complex and multidimensional than before. Compared with the rational meaning of words, the color meaning of words can better reflect the psychological mode and way of thinking of the Han nationality but it is difficult for foreign learners to accurately grasp and misunderstandings often occur. In order to solve this problem, it is necessary to summarize and explain the words whose color meanings are easily shifted, so as to help the students accurately grasp the color meanings of the words and better help Chinese learners to realize the communicative function of the language. Method. This paper takes the scope of emotional words as the starting point and proposes that emotional words are words with emotional colors. The four aspects of whether words belong to emotional words define the concept of emotional words and introduce the specific methods of judging and extracting emotional words from the two aspects of dictionary definition and word collocation. This paper takes foreign students whose native language is English as the research object, through questionnaire survey and corpus analysis, to investigate the use of foreign students’ emotional colors and to explore the influence of native language factors on emotional color acquisition. Based on the research of modern Chinese ontology and the existing research results in the field of teaching Chinese as a foreign language, this paper takes the theory of interlanguage and transfer theory as the theoretical basis and mainly uses the methods of comparative analysis and error analysis to try to find out the relationship between emotional color teaching and acquisition. Results/Discussion. The basic pattern and quantity distribution of lexical emotion correction for beginners, intermediate, and advanced learners of Chinese as a second language were analyzed, and the restrictive factors and characteristics were explained. Similarities and differences and the rationale behind them were explored. In the process of international Chinese teaching, teachers mostly pay attention to the rational meaning of words, while ignoring the teaching of the emotional meaning of words. The lack of vocabulary emotion and meaning teaching is prone to errors in students’ understanding and use. With the increase of the vocabulary of intermediate and advanced learners, many words with similar colors and meanings appear, which brings a lot of difficulties for students to distinguish between synonyms. If the use of words with emotional meanings is not accurate, it is easy to cause communication barriers.

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Productive Vocabulary Knowledge of ESL Learners

Cited by 4 publications

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The Effects of Lexical Profiling Tools on Academic Writing Performance

The Effects of Lexical Profiling Tools on Academic Writing Performance

English Vocabulary Levels of University Engineering Students in a Sino-NZ Collaboration

Quantitative Evaluation of Vocabulary Emotional Color in Language Teaching

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