Investigating relationship between fluid and crystallised intelligence and vocabulary size in students learning French as a foreign language

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11912
Author(s):  
Seyyedeh Soudeh Mirsaeedghazi
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
French Language ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Reasoning Test ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Correlation Result ◽  
Iranian Students ◽  
The Relationship

In this study, the relationship between fluid and crystallised intelligence and vocabulary size was investigated among Iranian students learning French as a foreign language. Studies emphasised on the importance of vocabulary size and language comprehension and tried to discover mental and intelligence factors related to this issue. To administer the present quantitative study, the Persian Adaptation of Baddeley’s (1968) Grammatical reasoning Test for Fluid Intelligence, Persian Test of Baghaei & Tabatabaee (2015) for Crystallised intelligence, and Nation’s (2012) Test of Vocabulary Size were instrumented. Population of the study was 100 intermediate learners of French language from three branches of Safir institute in Tehran. Data was analysed using SPSS and correlational tools to specify the variables correlation. Result showed that there is a significant relationship between crystallised intelligence and size of vocabulary (p<0.1), while there was no significant relationship between fluid intelligence and vocabulary size (p>0.5). It was concluded that fluid intelligence does not predict learners’ vocabulary size, but crystallised intelligence as grows gradually determines learners’ vocabulary size.

How and how much?

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-121
Author(s):  
Chiara Romagnoli ◽  
Sergio Conti
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Vocabulary Learning ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Vocabulary Learning Strategies ◽  
Chinese Learners ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Vocabulary plays a crucial role in foreign language learning, and vocabulary mastery proves to be challenging at different competence levels. Compared to other areas of research into Chinese as a foreign language, vocabulary acquisition and vocabulary teaching have rarely been investigated. The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between vocabulary learning strategies and vocabulary size and to verify whether vocabulary size is positively correlated to proficiency level. A total of 95 Italian undergraduate Chinese learners, from elementary to intermediate levels, participated in this study. The participants were first given a vocabulary learning questionnaire and then a vocabulary size test. Statistical and qualitative analyses of the data revealed two trends: a poor variety of vocabulary learning strategies and a positive correlation between vocabulary size and proficiency level.

scholarly journals Improving Assessment of Foreign Language Proficiency in Internationally Majoring Students

2014 ◽  
pp. 262-267
Author(s):  
N. L. Kobiakova
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Proficiency ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
French Language ◽  
Point System ◽  
Language Studies ◽  
Language Tests ◽  
Foreign Language Proficiency ◽  
National University

The author considers the issues related to the development of the theoretical platform and the methodology for a model used to control and evaluate educational achievements at the Russian-based university-level foreign-language using such foreign practices as merit point system, testing technology and traditional controls. Having analyzed European practices of control and evaluation of students' foreign language proficiency, in particular, the experience of France, she advocates for the adoption by the national university system of the best available foreign methodology in the field. The article depicts the proprietary model for the comprehensive assessment of the educational outcomes of the internationally majoring students in the French language. The model, customized for Russian universities, is based on the professionally oriented competence-based practical course of the French language for internationally majoring students designed by the author. With the regard to that content and basing on DELF, DALF and TCF language tests and exercise systems for the French language studies by European and Russian practitioners, she advances her own testing, communication and translation exercises toolbox. That comprehensive evaluation model was successful tested at the MGIMO. In the course of that experiment, national testing techniques and the content of linguistic tests and didactic tools were streamlined with the European requirements.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Learner Motivation and Vocabulary Size: The Case of Iraqi EFL Classrooms

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arab World English Journal ◽  
Mohammed Khaleel Khudhur ALBODAKH ◽  
Emrah Cinkara
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Intrinsic Motivation ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Foreign Language Learning ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Learner Motivation ◽  
Word Families ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Relationship

This study investigates the relationship between learner motivation and vocabulary size in English as foreign language (EFL) classrooms at Duhok University. The participants included 100 students (55 male, 45 female). All participants were pursuing their third years of study in an English department. Two instruments were employed: questionnaires regarding Motivation for Foreign Language Learning (MFLL) and Vocabulary Size Test (VST). The primary goal of this study is to determine which factors of motivation profoundly affect the foreign language learning processes of Iraqi EFL students and to what extent they should develop their depth and breadth English vocabularies in order to sufficiently acquire the language and elaborate the importance of both components in language acquisition. Findings showed that female students experienced both types of motivation, with the mean score of extrinsic motivation being 29.91, and that for intrinsic motivation being 31.20, while the mean score of male students was 27.10 for extrinsic motivation and 28.00 for intrinsic motivation. The VST ranged from 1,000 to 14,000 word-families, and the vocabulary size of both groups was over 6,000 word-families. Correlation analysis was conducted to determine the relationship between learner motivation and vocabulary size. For both groups, the results indicated no relationship between these two aspects of students' foreign language leaning. To investigate the difference between MFLL and VST, an independent samples t-test was utilized and no difference was found to exist between the vocabularies of both groups.

scholarly journals Promoting Petra Language Center To Its Target Market By Using A Website

K ta Kita ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-157
Author(s):  
Agnes Emmilia Eka Rosanti
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
English Language ◽  
French Language ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Target Market ◽  
Creative Thesis ◽  
Mandarin Language ◽  
Foreign Language Skill ◽  
Selling Point ◽  
The Relationship

I did my internship in Petra Language Center. The Products of PLC are English Language Center, Mandarin Language Center, Japanese Language Center, French Language Center, and Dutch Language Center. For English Language Center, it has other courses and it will be explained in Creative Thesis. The target market is children, teenagers, and general adults who want to enhance their foreign language skill. The competitors of PLC are Ubaya Language Center and Unesa Language Center.  The main problem of PLC is that the customers do not know where to go to get the information. The solution to this problem is to make a website. Website is a right tool for PLC because it is accessible and it provides the specific information about courses in PLC. The benefits of PLC website are to increase sales and profit, to expand its market, and to build the relationship with the customers. Keywords : promotional tool, website, unique selling point

scholarly journals Contribución de la prensa a la adquisición del vocabulario

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108
Author(s):  
Inmaculada Clotilde Santos Díaz ◽  
Ester Trigo Ibáñez ◽  
Manuel Francisco Romero Oliva
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Mother Tongue ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Press ◽  
Lexical Competence ◽  
The Relationship

The press brings the reader closer not only to the news of a community but also to its language and culture. The objective of this study is to know the relationship between press consumption and lexical competence. Specifically, the weekly time spent by 171 graduate students from Malaga reading the press and its relationship with two lexical tests in Spanish – mother tongue – and French or English – foreign language – will be analysed. The results show that there is no significant relationship between available vocabulary and press consumption. Instead, the relationship is significant with the ability to identify technicalities when the data refer to the foreign language of the informants. These findings invite us to continue promoting didactic applications that integrate press reading both to improve lexical competence and to integrate the sociopragmatic component of the language.

Montaigne on Language

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Chenoweth
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Early Education ◽  
First Century ◽  
French Language ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses Montaigne’s complex relationship to the French language. From the foreign-language quotations that fill the pages of the Essays to Montaigne’s early education in Latin and his assertion that he has created a “dictionary all [his] own,” the relationship between the essayist and the French vernacular is anything but straightforward. This article examines the essayist’s resistance to the cultural politics of French in his own time and argues against the modern assimilation of Montaigne and the Essays into the French language. It proposes instead to understand the language of the Essais through the lens of temporality, translation, difference, and différance. The article also discusses the challenges involved in reading and translating Montaigne’s language in the twenty-first century.

The Relationship Among Vocabulary Size, Grammar Proficiency, and Critical Thinking Skills of Adult Language Learners

2020 ◽  
pp. 104515952095947
Author(s):  
İhsan Ünaldı ◽  
Erkan Yüce
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learners ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Critical Thinking Skills ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Proficiency Levels ◽  
Proficiency Level ◽  
Adult Language Learners ◽  
The Relationship

This study aims to determine the possible relationships among foreign language vocabulary size, foreign language grammar proficiency, and critical thinking skills. To this end, 126 adult language learners were examined in terms of vocabulary size, grammar proficiency, and critical thinking skills. The results revealed that participants’ grammar proficiency levels and their vocabulary size scores correlated significantly with certain aspects of critical thinking skills. However, unlike their vocabulary size scores, grammar proficiency level scores of the participants correlated significantly with their overall critical thinking skills scores. These results will be discussed in relation to adult language learners.

scholarly journals THE POLICY OF ARABIZATION OF EDUCATION IN ALGERIA BETWEEN LINGUISTIC PLANNING AND SOCIAL REALITY: ARABIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION AS A MODEL

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 113-123
Author(s):  
Zahia DJABALLAH
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
French Language ◽  
Colonial Authority ◽  
The Relationship

This article is concerned with research on the sociolinguistic reality in Algeria, by studying one of its issues, which is the issue of the arabization of education. And if the linguistic policy is affected and influenced by social life, then planning in arabization has a relationship with social reality. Therefore, our research aimed at studying the relationship between the applied arabization policy and the linguistic requirements of social reality. The most important results reached were the inconsistency of the applied arabization policy with the linguistic base established by the colonial authority , which continued after independence, and led to the emergence of fundamental problems, resulting from the total arabization of the basic and secondary training and some specializations in higher education. So that students in arabized disciplines largely lost control over the foreign language, which is a prerequisite for contemporary changes and for national needs that require control over bilingualism. As for those enrolled in specializations that depend on the French language, they found difficulty with the language of formation, because their basic formation was in the Arabic language.

The relationship between happiness and vocation burnout teachers

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mina Zarnaghash ◽  
Fazlolah Mirderikvand ◽  
Mohammad Ali Sepahvandi
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Good Predictor ◽  
Individual Performance ◽  
Job Burnout ◽  
Measurement Tools ◽  
Correlation Result ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Three Components

<p>The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between happiness and vocation burnout teachers. The sample of this study includes 186 teachers of Shiraz. The measurement tools were Maslash job burnout inventory (2001) and Aksford happiness scale (Valliant, 1993). Alpha Cronbach was calculated to determine the reliability of the questionnaires (0/80 &amp; 0/93). Data was analyzed by regression and correlation.  Result shows significant relationship between happiness and vocation burnout (Emotional Exhaustion, -0/327) (Depersonalization, -0/228) (individual performance, 0.394). Result of regression shows that happiness is a good predictor for all of three components of job burnout at P&lt;001.</p><p> </p><p>Keywords: happiness, vocation burnout, emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, ındividual performance</p>

scholarly journals Sociolinguistics

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-42
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Second Language ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
French Language ◽  
Birkbeck College ◽  
Second Language Teaching ◽  
Personal Names ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Academic Communities ◽  
Language Studies

05–96Akinyemi, Akintunde (U of Florida, USA; [email protected]). Integrating culture and second language teaching through Yorùbá personal names. The Modern Language Journal (Madison, Wl, USA) 89.1 (2005), 115–126.05–97Dewaele, Jean-Marc (Birkbeck College, U of London, UK; [email protected]). The acquisition of sociolinguistic competence in French as a foreign language: an overview. French Language Studies (Cambridge, UK) 14.3 (2004), 301–319.05–98Morita N. (U of British Columbia, Canada). Negotiating Participation and Identity in Second Language Academic Communities. TESOL Quarterly (Alexandria, VA, USA) 38.4 (2004), 573–603.

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