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dc.contributor.author Canga Alonso, Andrés es_ES
dc.date.accessioned 2013-07-23T11:56:47Z
dc.date.available 2013-07-23T11:56:47Z
dc.date.issued 2013-07
dc.identifier.issn 1886-2438
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10251/31326
dc.description.abstract [EN] This paper aims at investigating the receptive vocabulary knowledge of 49 girls and 43 boys, Spanish students learning English as a foreign language in a secondary school located in the north of Spain, and its pedagogical implications for students' understanding of written and spoken discourse in English (Adolphs & Schmitt 2004; Laufer 1992, 1997; Nation 2001). We used the 2,000 frequency band of the Vocabulary Level Test (VLT) (Schmitt, Schmitt & Clapham, 2001, version 2) as the instrument to measure students' receptive vocabulary knowledge. Our results reveal that the means of girls' receptive vocabulary size is below 900 words, which is a bit lower than the estimates proposed by López-Mezquita (2005) for Spanish students of the same age and educational level. On the contrary, the means for boys is slightly above 1,000 words and the differences between boys' and girls' performance in the VLT is statistically relevant in favour of males. Our data also indicate that most of the students analysed in the present study could have problems to understand written and spoken discourse in English due to their low scores in the receptive vocabulary level test. es_ES
dc.description.sponsorship This study is part of the research project “Factores individuales y contextuales en la adquisición y desarrollo de la competencia léxica en inglés como lengua extranjera” funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Ref. Nº: FFI2010-19334/FILO).
dc.language Inglés es_ES
dc.publisher Editorial Universitat Politècnica de València
dc.relation.ispartof Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas
dc.rights Reserva de todos los derechos es_ES
dc.subject EFL es_ES
dc.subject Secondary education learners es_ES
dc.subject Boys es_ES
dc.subject Girls es_ES
dc.subject Receptive vocabulary size es_ES
dc.subject VLT es_ES
dc.title Receptive vocabulary size of secondary spanish EFL learners es_ES
dc.type Artículo es_ES
dc.date.updated 2013-07-23T07:34:07Z
dc.identifier.doi 10.4995/rlyla.2013.1180
dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MICINN//FFI2010-19334/ES/Factores individuales y contextuales en la adquisición y desarrollo de la competencia léxica en inglés como lengua extranjera/
dc.rights.accessRights Abierto es_ES
dc.description.bibliographicCitation Canga Alonso, A. (2013). Receptive vocabulary size of secondary spanish EFL learners. Revista de Lingüística y Lenguas Aplicadas. 8(1):66-75. https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2013.1180 es_ES
dc.description.accrualMethod SWORD es_ES
dc.relation.publisherversion https://doi.org/10.4995/rlyla.2013.1180 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpinicio 66 es_ES
dc.description.upvformatpfin 75 es_ES
dc.description.volume 8
dc.description.issue 1
dc.identifier.eissn 1886-6298
dc.contributor.funder Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
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