Examining the Relationship between Receptive Vocabulary Size and Written Skills of Primary School Learners
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Universidad de La Rioja
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ISSN: 0210-6124
Year of publication: 2009
Volume: 31
Issue: 1
Pages: 129-147
Type: Article
More publications in: Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos
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- Year 2009
- SJR Journal Impact: 0.102
- Best Quartile: Q2
- Area: Literature and Literary Theory Quartile: Q2 Rank in area: 257/601
- Area: Cultural Studies Quartile: Q3 Rank in area: 358/629
- Area: Linguistics and Language Quartile: Q4 Rank in area: 400/577
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Abstract
Receptive vocabulary size is an important component of lexical competence and has been observed to be instrumental for both reading and writing. The central purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, to assess the receptive vocabulary of 274 primary school Spanish learners of EFL after a total of 629 hours of instruction; second, to determine the extent to which measures of receptive vocabulary size are related to the quality of written compositions and reading comprehension skills. The study was carried out by administering two vocabulary size tests (1kWT and 2k VLT), a timed composition and a Reading Comprehension Test. The findings from this study prove that the receptive vocabulary size of Spanish primary school EFL learners is satisfactory. The correlation between receptive vocabulary size and essay quality is not very high, yet it is significant. Finally, results reflect the importance of receptive vocabulary size in reading comprehension.