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Vocabulary Strength for English Majors in the Chinese Context

作　者: Zhang Yan
导　师: Fang Yiqing
学　校: 中国科学技术大学
专　业: Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
关键词: vocabulary knowledge strength modalities hierarchy development correlation
分类号: H319
类　型: 硕士论文
年　份: 2006年
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The vocabulary strength is a recent improvement upon the dimension of active and passive vocabulary knowledge. This paper explored the vocabulary knowledge of strength among English majors of four grades at a key comprehensive university in China. A bilingual version of English-Chinese test of strength was constructed and administered to randomly sampled subjects from each grade. The results proved the validity of hierarchy of vocabulary strength and distinguished four different modalities: active recall (hardest), passive recall, active recognition and passive recognition (easiest). Investigations into the development of strength modalities revealed that the two recognition modalities grew at similar paces and they developed faster than passive recall, which in turn increased faster than active recall. At college, the students’ knowledge of four strength modalities from Grade 1 to 3 grew primarily at the 3000 word level and secondarily at the 5000 word level. There was virtually no increase from Grade 3 to 4 during the third year. Correlation analyses indicated that the two recall modalities had higher correlations with language proficiency. The findings of this paper reflect the significance of the recall modalities, and the difficulty and necessity of improving them.

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ABSTRACT  3-4
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS  4-7
1 INTRODUCTION  7-11
  1.1 ALEAD-IN  7-8
  1.2 RESEARCH BACKGROUND  8-10
  1.3 THE PURPOSES OF THE STUDY  10-11
2 THEORETICAL RATIONALE  11-20
  2.1 VOCABULARY SIZE AND DEPTH  11-15
    2.1.1 Vocabulary size  11-13
    2.1.2 Vocabulary depth  13-15
  2.2 PASSIVE AND ACTIVE VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE  15-16
  2.3 VOCABULARY STRENGTH  16-18
  2.4 PREVIOUS STUDIES IN CHINA  18-20
3 THE CROSS-SECTIONAL INVESTIGATION INTO VOCABULARY STRENGTH  20-24
  3.1 SUBJECTS  20
  3.2 RESEARCH INSTRUMENT  20-22
  3.3 DATA COLLECTION  22-23
  3.4 TEST SCORING  23-24
4 STATISTICS AND RESULTS ANALYSES  24-38
  4.1 THE DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS  24-27
  4.2 RESEARCH QUESTION 1  27-30
  4.3 RESEARCH QUESTION 2  30-36
    4.3.1 The development of different strength modalities  30-33
    4.3.2 The development at four critical word levels  33-36
    4.3.3 General development  36
  4.4 RESEARCH QUESTION 3  36-38
5 DISCUSSION  38-47
  5.1 THE HIERARCHY OF STRENGTH MODALITIES  38-39
  5.2 THE DEVELOPMENT OF STRENGTH MODALITIES  39-44
    5.2.1 The development of different modalities  39-40
    5.2.2 The development at four critical word levels  40-42
    5.2.3 The general development  42-44
  5.3 THE CORRELATIONS  44-46
  5.4 GENERAL DISCUSSION  46-47
6 CONCLUSION  47-51
  6.1 IMPLICATIONS  47-48
  6.2 LIMITATIONS  48-49
  6.3 FUTURE DIRECTIONS  49-51
REFERENCES  51-54
APPENDIX:TEST OF VOCABULARY STRENGTH  54-65

Vocabulary Strength for English Majors in the Chinese Context

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