ERIC Number: EJ1163134
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2017
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1578-7044
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Receptive Vocabulary Measures for EFL Costa Rican High School Students
Castro-Garcia, Damaris
International Journal of English Studies, v17 n2 p81-99 2017
The study offers a glimpse of the current situation of foreign language education in the Costa Rican context from the perspective of vocabulary knowledge, particularly passive vocabulary size. Students from two institutions participated: one school implements Content Based Teaching while the other follows traditional, Foreign Language Teaching instruction. This research aims to describe the receptive vocabulary profile of students and to compare the vocabulary levels of students between two gender groups and under two types of English language teaching. These measures are established following the idea originally presented in Paul Nation's (1983, 1990) Vocabulary Levels Test. In this case, Schmitt, Schmitt and Clapham's (2001) Version 2 test was used to define passive vocabulary levels. Finally, the results of this analysis are compared to results for similar population samples in other studies.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language), High School Students, Receptive Language, Vocabulary, Teaching Methods, Conventional Instruction, Course Content, Gender Differences, Grade 11, Tests, Statistical Analysis
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Costa Rica
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