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Phonological vocabulary size, orthographic vocabulary size, and EFL reading ability among native Arabic speakers.

Khaled Alhazmi, Jim Milton

Journal of Applied Linguistcs, Volume: 30, Pages: 26 - 43

Swansea University Author: Jim Milton

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Low vocabulary size and poor reading skills among nativeArabic speakers learning EFL is a feature of the literature on secondlanguage acquisition (e.g., Alsaif 2011). Milton and Riordan (2006)suggest that the structure of the lexicon itself among these learnersmay be a contributory factor to their p...

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ISSN: 2408-025x
Published: 2015
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spelling 2016-10-17T13:51:20.2136039 v2 29234 2016-07-18 Phonological vocabulary size, orthographic vocabulary size, and EFL reading ability among native Arabic speakers. 7d251e1952cec9d77ed4fc21346fec8d Jim Milton Jim Milton true false 2016-07-18 FGHSS Low vocabulary size and poor reading skills among nativeArabic speakers learning EFL is a feature of the literature on secondlanguage acquisition (e.g., Alsaif 2011). Milton and Riordan (2006)suggest that the structure of the lexicon itself among these learnersmay be a contributory factor to their poor reading skills. They notethat these learners often appear to recognise more English words bysound than by writing and speculate that learners may be tied to aphonological route to comprehension in reading. Phonologicaldecoding of text will slow down reading speed and inhibitcomprehension. This paper investigates this idea and tests 30 Arabicspeaking learners using parallel vocabulary size tests in English whichallow separate estimates of phonological and orthographic vocabularysize to be made. These results are then compared with sub-scores inthe IELTS test. Generally, (e.g., Milton, Wade and Hopkins 2010)orthographic vocabulary size best predicts IELTS sub-scores inreading and writing, and the overall IELTS scores. The results fromthis study, however, show that it is the phonological knowledge whichlinks to performance on IELTS lending support to the idea that theselearners are tied to phonological decoding Journal Article Journal of Applied Linguistcs 30 26 43 2408-025x orthographic vocabulary size, phonological decoding, 31 12 2015 2015-12-31 http://www.enl.auth.gr/gala/jal/online_vol.asp?Vol=30 Annual Publication of the Greek Applied Linguistics Association COLLEGE NANME Humanities and Social Sciences - Faculty COLLEGE CODE FGHSS Swansea University 2016-10-17T13:51:20.2136039 2016-07-18T12:50:32.8596941 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences School of Culture and Communication - English Language, Tesol, Applied Linguistics Khaled Alhazmi 1 Jim Milton 2
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description Low vocabulary size and poor reading skills among nativeArabic speakers learning EFL is a feature of the literature on secondlanguage acquisition (e.g., Alsaif 2011). Milton and Riordan (2006)suggest that the structure of the lexicon itself among these learnersmay be a contributory factor to their poor reading skills. They notethat these learners often appear to recognise more English words bysound than by writing and speculate that learners may be tied to aphonological route to comprehension in reading. Phonologicaldecoding of text will slow down reading speed and inhibitcomprehension. This paper investigates this idea and tests 30 Arabicspeaking learners using parallel vocabulary size tests in English whichallow separate estimates of phonological and orthographic vocabularysize to be made. These results are then compared with sub-scores inthe IELTS test. Generally, (e.g., Milton, Wade and Hopkins 2010)orthographic vocabulary size best predicts IELTS sub-scores inreading and writing, and the overall IELTS scores. The results fromthis study, however, show that it is the phonological knowledge whichlinks to performance on IELTS lending support to the idea that theselearners are tied to phonological decoding
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