The effect of productive vocabulary knowledge on second language comprehension.

ABSTRACT: Second language learners tend to focus more on learning the meaning of vocabulary than on how to use it in their speech and writing. Although comprehensive vocabulary knowledge is necessary for understanding sentences, productive vocabulary knowledge may also have a positive impact on sentence comprehension. Most studies examining the relationship between production and comprehension have compared these abilities between participants or evaluated unrelated criteria between tasks, which may be insufficient for examining the direct effects of productive knowledge on sentence comprehension. Our study investigates changes in sentence comprehension speed during listening, and we used a within-subjects comparison to examine the effect of productive vocabulary knowledge or the lack thereof. We ap

SUBMITTER: Allal-Sumoto TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10140509 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature