Conceptualising Vocabulary Knowledge
This study aims to explore the relationship between receptive and productive vocabulary size and individual variance factors that might relate to this established relationship.Individual variance factors included reading ability,whether participants are studying in an arts or science stream,and the ratio of the score at the most frequent 2 000 words level to the overall vocabulary score.Two hundred and forty-six English as a Foreign Language(EFL)high school students in China were recruited to complete four tests to explore these research components.Participants completed the English-Chinese Vocabulary Translation(ECVT)and the Chinese-English Vocabulary Translation(CEVT)tests to measure their receptive vocabulary size and controlled productive vocabulary size.The Lex30 was used to investigate participants'free productive vocabulary size and participants'reading ability was identified according to their scores from one IELTS General Training Reading practice test.The current study found that participants'receptive and controlled productive vocabulary knowledge developed at an inconsistent speed and participants with a higher receptive score tended to have a larger gap between receptive and controlled productive knowledge.The findings of this study hope to provide additional insights that will assist language learning and teaching among intermediate EFL learners.
receptive vocabulary size productive vocabulary size reading ability English as a Foreign Language
王譞
西北工业大学外国语学院
国内会议
西安
英文
200-211
2019-07-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）