RSSVolume 10 Issue 4

Vocabulary Size, Background Characteristics and Reading Skills of Korean Intensive English Students

Vocabulary Size, Background Characteristics and Reading Skills of Korean Intensive English Students

| December 28, 2008

This study examines the relationship between breadth of vocabulary, background experiences in learning English and student skill in the reading of an academic text. The author used the Swansea Levels Tests to estimate vocabulary sizes and collected information on background characteristics via questionnaire from eleven Korean students enrolled in an Intensive English program and five Korean undergraduate students at Utah State University.

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Learner Beliefs and Language Learning

Learner Beliefs and Language Learning

| December 28, 2008

This article explores the nature of learner beliefs, how these beliefs can change over time and how their beliefs relate to learners’ developing proficiency. It reports three studies of learner beliefs. Ellis (2002) used metaphor analysis to explore the beliefs of six beginner classroom learners of L2 German.

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