The relationship between vocabulary size and depth for ESP/EAP learners  

Oleh:

Akbarian, Is’haaq

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 38 no. 3 (Sep. 2010), page 391-401.
Topik: ocabulary size; Vocabulary depth; Relationship; ESP/EAP learners
Fulltext: p. 391-401.pdf (170.38KB)

Isi artikel

Vocabulary knowledge occupies an important position in language learning. This study investigates the relationship between vocabulary size and depth for Iranian learners of English for specific/academic purposes (ESP/EAP). The participants include 112 ESP graduate students at a university in Iran. The findings from linear regression analyses show that, overall, VLT (size test) and WAT (depth test) have a great deal of common shared variance for these participants (R2 = .746). However, when they were divided into low and high proficiency groups, based on whether the participants mastered the most frequent 2000 words in VLT, a substantial amount of shared variance was shown for the low group (R2 = .464) and a much higher one for the high group (R2 = .804). The findings suggest that vocabulary size and depth might be accounted for by the same factors, especially as the learners’ proficiency increases.

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