<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This study investigates the relationship between learners’ receptive vocabulary knowledge as measured by the Vocabulary Size Test (Nation and Beglar, 2007) and free productive vocabulary knowledge as demonstrated by the learners when writing a short story based on pictures. The focus is on three different areas of productive vocabulary use: lexical diversity (i.e. the proportion of different words in a text), lexical sophistication (i.e. the proportion of advanced words in a text) and lexical density (i.e. the proportion of content words in a text). The results of a bivariate correlation analysis indicate that there is a moderate relationship between learners’ receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical diversity of the texts they produce; there is a weak relationship between their receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical sophistication in the texts; and there is no relationship between their receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical density.</p></abstract>

This study investigates the relationship between learners’ receptive vocabulary knowledge as measured by the Vocabulary Size Test (Nation and Beglar, 2007) and free productive vocabulary knowledge as demonstrated by the learners when writing a short story based on pictures. The focus is on three different areas of productive vocabulary use: lexical diversity (i.e. the proportion of different words in a text), lexical sophistication (i.e. the proportion of advanced words in a text) and lexical density (i.e. the proportion of content words in a text). The results of a bivariate correlation analysis indicate that there is a moderate relationship between learners’ receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical diversity of the texts they produce; there is a weak relationship between their receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical sophistication in the texts; and there is no relationship between their receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical density.

The relationship between receptive and productive vocabulary of Slavic EFL learners

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This study investigates the relationship between learners’ receptive vocabulary knowledge as measured by the Vocabulary Size Test (Nation and Beglar, 2007) and...

The relationship between receptive and productive vocabulary of Slavic EFL learners

Published Online: Dec 17, 2016

Page range: 26 - 40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/topling-2016-0011

Keywords
receptive vocabulary knowledge, productive vocabulary knowledge, controlled productive vocabulary knowledge, free productive vocabulary knowledge, lexical richness, lexical diversity, lexical sophistication, lexical density

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The relationship between receptive and productive vocabulary of Slavic EFL learners

Published Online: Dec 17, 2016

Page range: 26 - 40

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/topling-2016-0011

Keywordsreceptive vocabulary knowledge, productive vocabulary knowledge, controlled productive vocabulary knowledge, free productive vocabulary knowledge, lexical richness, lexical diversity, lexical sophistication, lexical density

© 2016

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
receptive vocabulary knowledge, productive vocabulary knowledge, controlled productive vocabulary knowledge, free productive vocabulary knowledge, lexical richness, lexical diversity, lexical sophistication, lexical density