Despite the growth of research in learning and teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
(CFL), no scoping review of research published in international, anglophone journals has …

Metalinguistic knowledge has a facilitative effect on reading comprehension. This meta-
analysis examined the relationship between metalinguistic knowledge and reading …

Depth of vocabulary knowledge is typically defined as how well a word is known. Thus,
measuring depth of vocabulary knowledge should tell us how well test takers know words …

In second language (L2) vocabulary studies there is continuing interest in tests of depth of
vocabulary knowledge, measuring various aspects of word knowledge other than just the …

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 …

Understanding the relationship between lexical coverage (ie, the number of words known in
a text) and second language (L2) reading comprehension is pivotal to L2 instruction as it …

Grammatical and vocabulary knowledge (ie, breadth and depth) are widely acknowledged
as key predictors of reading comprehension in a second language (L2). However, it remains …

This study aimed to find out the relative contribution of lexical breadth, lexical depth, and
syntactic knowledge to second language (L2) reading comprehension of 254 adult Turkish …

This study examines the relative contribution of vocabulary breadth (VB) and vocabulary
depth (VD) to three different listening comprehension measures. One hundred and thirteen …

In the context of the learning, teaching, and assessment of second language (L2) speaking
skills, L2 fluency has been regarded as one of the important constructs. However, L2 fluency …