By David Hirsh
Reflecting progress in examine curiosity in moment language vocabulary over the last 30 years, this edited quantity explores the present issues and attainable destiny instructions in moment language vocabulary learn. the gathering brings jointly assessment papers and quantitative experiences, and considers vocabulary within the contexts of educating, studying and evaluate. Key subject matters explored within the quantity comprise multidimensionality of vocabulary wisdom, the character of be aware learnability, the interface among receptive vocabulary wisdom and efficient vocabulary use, the partial-to-precise continuum of vocabulary wisdom, stipulations favouring vocabulary studying and use, and using corpora to boost note lists to notify moment language educating. the subjects offered during this quantity replicate present pondering and study avenues on the interface among study enquiry and moment language instructing perform.
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III. I have seen or heard this word before, and know its meaning a little. What I know about it is ____________________. IV. 2. Depth dimension The depth dimension indicates a comprehensive word model which includes three categories of knowledge aspects listed as follows: x form – orthographic, phonological and morphological aspects x semantic association – antonymy, synonymy, hyponymy and gradation x pragmatic factors – collocation restrictions, register and frequency Schmitt (1995) pointed out that the form and meaning aspects are apparently acquired earlier and used more than the other aspects in the process of learning.
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The results also suggested that the children’s ability of decoding of words slows as the word length and orthographic complexity increases. Hence, one assumption that can be raised is that word length affects learners’ word decoding ability, and, in turn, affects word learnability. 2. Orthographic Depth Hypothesis (ODH) The ease of word decoding may differ across languages depending on their orthographic depth (Frost/Katz/Bentin 1987). Katz and Frost (1992) proposed the Orthographic Depth Hypothesis (ODH) to describe how orthographic depth affects phonological decoding procedures across writing systems.