Essays about: "Vocabulary Levels Test"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Vocabulary Levels Test.
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1. Vocabulary Acquisition Based on Nation’s Criteria for Knowing a Word, with a Focus on Proficiency and Frequency : A Study on Incidental Vocabulary Acquisition through Reading and the Role of Surrounding Factors
University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för kultur och kommunikationAbstract : Several studies have been made in the field of second language acquisition (SLA) regarding incidental vocabulary acquisition through reading. However, the majority have focused on the meaning of a word to measure complete acquisition. READ MORE
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2. Transformation and linking of authoritative multi-scale geodata for the Semantic Web : a case study of Swedish national building data sets
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : Semantic Web technology has attracted much interest for its ability to integrate and deliver information from different sources, and increasingly, geodata are being published as triple data according to the graph structure laid out in the Resource Description Framework (RDF). Although the Semantic Web already contains a large volume of geotagged information, there is still a lack of suitable geometric representations for proper visualization thereof. READ MORE
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3. The effects of video games on the receptive vocabulary proficiency of Swedish ESL students
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Playing video games is an activity that takes up an increasing amount of children’s and adolescent’s spare time. While some previous studies have highlighted the negative aspects of video games, little research has been carried out on the linguistic learning opportunities that video games present. READ MORE
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4. Automaticity in L2 learning: Correlation between vocabulary proficiency and response time in word recognition
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : Automaticity (in this essay defined as short response time) and fluency in language use are closely connected to each other and some research has been conducted regarding some of the aspects involved. In fact, the notion of automaticity is still debated and many definitions and opinions on what automaticity is have been suggested (Andersson,1987, 1992, 1993, Logan, 1988, Segalowitz, 2010). READ MORE
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5. Family-centered intervention : Auditory Verbal Therapy - empowering caregivers of children with cochlear implants
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för neurovetenskapAbstract : The aims of this study were to examine a) whether the family-centered intervention method Auditory Verbal Therapy (AVT) has had an effect on the levels of empowerment of caregivers of children with CI; and b) whether the parents feeling most empowered have a continual habit of reading frequently with their child and have children who achieve higher scores on lexical-semantic tasks; c) whether the empowerment questionnaire “Att vara förälder” (“Being a parent”) is an appropriate assessment tool to evaluate intervention intending to empower the caregivers of children with hearing impairment. Vocabulary was used as a way to gauge the effectiveness of the method. READ MORE
