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- Title
The relationship between receptive and productive vocabulary of Slavic EFL learners.
- Authors
Šišková, Zdislava
- Abstract
This study investigates the relationship between learners' receptive vocabulary knowledge as measured by the Vocabulary Size Test (Nation and Beglar, 2007) and free productive vocabulary knowledge as demonstrated by the learners when writing a short story based on pictures. The focus is on three different areas of productive vocabulary use: lexical diversity (i.e. the proportion of different words in a text), lexical sophistication (i.e. the proportion of advanced words in a text) and lexical density (i.e. the proportion of content words in a text). The results of a bivariate correlation analysis indicate that there is a moderate relationship between learners' receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical diversity of the texts they produce; there is a weak relationship between their receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical sophistication in the texts; and there is no relationship between their receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical density.
- Subjects
ENGLISH as a foreign language; VOCABULARY; STATISTICAL correlation; THEORY of knowledge; FREE products (Group theory)
- Publication
Topics in Linguistics, 2016, Vol 17, Issue 2, p26
- ISSN
1337-7590
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/topling-2016-0011