A Guide to Doing Statistics in Second Language Research Using SPSS and R, Second
Edition is the only text available that demonstrates how to use SPSS and R as specifically …

Applied linguistics is a curious discipline, one that seems particularly badly inflicted with
band-wagon research. Every now and then someone produces an especially insightful …

The current study examined the effects of watching a closed-captioned movie clip on
incidental vocabulary learning in a pre-test post-test experimental design. 120 college …

One of the questions frequently asked in second language (L2) lexical research is how L2
learners' patterns of lexical organization compare to those of native speakers (NSs). A …

During the recent technological years, language learning has been attempted to transform
its path from the conventional methods to instrumental applications. Mobile phone provides …

The current study is an attempt to investigate the particular role learners' vocabulary
knowledge plays in their reading comprehension performance. It intends to determine …

The progression from receptive vocabulary knowledge to productive word use in language
learning to date is unclear. Vocabulary size has been the primary focus of receptive and …

Since its modern inception in the late nineteenth century, research on word associations has
developed into a large and diverse area of study, including work with both applied linguistic …

The present study investigates the interaction between vocabulary breadth and depth on the
one hand and assessments of L2 learners' descriptive writing on the other. The predictive …

Vocabulary as" the building block of language"(Schmitt, Schmitt, & Clapham, 2001, p. 53), is
considered by some to be" the single most important aspect of foreign language …