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Measuring the contribution of specialist vocabulary knowledge to academic achievement: disentangling effects of multiple types of word knowledge
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Jim Milton,
Dina Abdel Salam El-Dakhs,
Heba Elmenshawy
Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education, Volume: 6, Issue: 1
Swansea University Author: Jim Milton
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DOI (Published version): 10.1186/s40862-021-00114-5
Abstract
This study investigates the idea that knowledge of specialist subject vocabulary can make a significant and measurable impact on academic performance, separate from and additional to the impact of general and academic vocabulary knowledge. It tests the suggestion of Hyland and Tse (TESOL Quarterly,...
| Published in: | Asian-Pacific Journal of Second and Foreign Language Education |
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| ISSN: | 2363-5169 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa60400 |
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This study investigates the idea that knowledge of specialist subject vocabulary can make a significant and measurable impact on academic performance, separate from and additional to the impact of general and academic vocabulary knowledge. It tests the suggestion of Hyland and Tse (TESOL Quarterly, 41:235–253, 2007) that specialist vocabulary should be given more attention in teaching. Three types of vocabulary knowledge, general, academic and a specialist business vocabulary factors, are tested against GPA and a business module scores among students of business at a college in Egypt. The results show that while general vocabulary size has the greatest explanation of variance in the academic success factors, the other two factors - academic and a specialist business vocabulary - make separate and additional further contributions. The contribution to the explanation of variance made by specialist vocabulary knowledge is double that of academic vocabulary knowledge. |
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Vocabulary size, Academic vocabulary, Specialist vocabulary, General vocabulary, Academic achievement, AWL |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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The researchers thank Prince Sultan University for funding this research project through the research lab [Applied Linguistics Research Lab- RL-CH-2019/9/1]. |
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