The last 30 years or so have witnessed the flourishing of much scholarly work on the
association between learners' vocabulary knowledge and their language proficiency. A …

How L2 learners infer word meanings from context and what strategies they use to do so
have recently become the subject of much research. However, there are still many questions …

In the last 15 years or so, language testing practitioners have increasingly favored assessing
vocabulary in context. The discrete-point vocabulary measure used in the old version of the …

Vocabulary learning strategies are learners' conscious efforts in managing their own
learning of vocabulary. Learners use metacognitive and cognitive vocabulary strategies to …

This study determines whether breadth and depth of vocabulary knowledge are related to L2
ease and success in lexical inferencing. To this end, two tests meas-uring vocabulary …

This Element aims to address the complexity of metalinguistic awareness to achieve a
thorough account of its impacts on second language (L2) reading development and promote …

Lexical inferencing is an important vocabulary learning strategy. Unfortunately, almost all
research on this issue has been carried out in the reading context. This study is the first to …

This study examined whether vocabulary knowledge is sufficient for second language (L2)
word-meaning inferencing. Specifically, it investigated the role of the learner's sensitivity to a …

This study aimed at determining the influence of vocabulary size on comprehension of
academic texts among 256 university entrants to whom English was a foreign language …

The vast majority of second language (L2) vocabulary research focuses on learners'
knowledge of isolated word forms. However, it is unclear to what extent this knowledge can …