A Correlation Analysis on the Depth and Breadth of ESL Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge and Their Overall Linguistic Competence

The breadth and depth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge and their comprehensive linguistic competence are not well studied in current literatures on vocabulary studies. This paper explores the creditability of depth and breadth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge as an indicator of t...

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Published in:Theory and practice in language studies 2014-12, Vol.4 (12), p.2460
Main Author: Wang, Zhaogang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
College Students
Competence and performance (Linguistics)
English as a second language
English as a second language learning
Experiments
Foreign language learning
Knowledge
Language Skills
Linguistic competence
Linguistic research
Linguistics
Reading
Reading comprehension
Studies
Study and teaching
Vocabulary
Vocabulary Development
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Summary:The breadth and depth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge and their comprehensive linguistic competence are not well studied in current literatures on vocabulary studies. This paper explores the creditability of depth and breadth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge as an indicator of their overall linguistic competence and the correlation between depth and breadth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge. The results show that both the depth and breadth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge can effective ly be representative of their linguistic competence, of which the depth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge is better than the breadth of their vocabulary knowledge as an indicator of their overall linguistic competence. In general, the breadth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge is highly positively correlated with the depth of their vocabulary knowledge but the development of depth of vocabulary knowledge still lags behind the development of breadth of vocabulary knowledge. Index Terms--breadth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge, depth of ESL learners' vocabulary knowledge, comprehensive linguistic competence, correlation analysis, SPSS
ISSN:1799-2591
2053-0692
DOI:10.4304/tpls.4.12.2460-2465