Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison

One of the challenges of an EFL learner is to increase the vocabulary size and to increase their vocabulary richness. This study reports on the lexical richness of 139 pre-sessional students and 140 advanced level students studying at an English medium university. Pre sessional student are students...

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Main Authors:	Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza, Muhamad, Ainon Jariah, Esa, Zaleha
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2016
Subjects:	LB Theory and practice of education
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/61316/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/61316/9/61316-%20TESOL%20program.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/61316/8/61316-TESOL%20slides.pdf

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spelling	iium-613162018-01-24T01:34:15Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/61316/ Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Muhamad, Ainon Jariah Esa, Zaleha LB Theory and practice of education One of the challenges of an EFL learner is to increase the vocabulary size and to increase their vocabulary richness. This study reports on the lexical richness of 139 pre-sessional students and 140 advanced level students studying at an English medium university. Pre sessional student are students who are about to enrol in their faculties while the advanced students are students who about to graduate. Both groups have met the minimum entry requirement of the university which is an equivalent of IELTS band 6 or TOEFL 550. The students in this study attended intensive English courses at the pre-sessional level. Once they are accepted into their faculties, it is assumed that they will maintain progress of their English language proficiency generally and their vocabulary size specifically, on their own. The specific objectives of this study are (1) to determine the difference between the type-token ratio in the pre-sessional students’ essays and that of the advanced level students’ essays; (2) to determine the difference between the use of 2000-word level in the pre-sessional students’ essays and that of the advanced level students’ essays; and to determine the difference between the use of academic words in the pre-sessional students’ essays and that of the advanced level students’ essays. Students’ lexical richness vocabulary were measured using RANGE program developed by Nation, Heatley & Coxhead (2002). Although this study is still in progress, it is predicted that advanced learner students would be using a greater frequency of words at the upper levels of 5,000 and 10,000 word levels implying that there is a development of higher frequency vocabulary in advanced learners thus indicating greater lexical richness. 2016 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/61316/9/61316-%20TESOL%20program.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/61316/8/61316-TESOL%20slides.pdf Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza and Muhamad, Ainon Jariah and Esa, Zaleha (2016) Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison. In: TESOL Indonesia International Conference, 11th - 13th August 2016, Lombok, Indonesia. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	LB Theory and practice of education Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Muhamad, Ainon Jariah Esa, Zaleha Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison
description	One of the challenges of an EFL learner is to increase the vocabulary size and to increase their vocabulary richness. This study reports on the lexical richness of 139 pre-sessional students and 140 advanced level students studying at an English medium university. Pre sessional student are students who are about to enrol in their faculties while the advanced students are students who about to graduate. Both groups have met the minimum entry requirement of the university which is an equivalent of IELTS band 6 or TOEFL 550. The students in this study attended intensive English courses at the pre-sessional level. Once they are accepted into their faculties, it is assumed that they will maintain progress of their English language proficiency generally and their vocabulary size specifically, on their own. The specific objectives of this study are (1) to determine the difference between the type-token ratio in the pre-sessional students’ essays and that of the advanced level students’ essays; (2) to determine the difference between the use of 2000-word level in the pre-sessional students’ essays and that of the advanced level students’ essays; and to determine the difference between the use of academic words in the pre-sessional students’ essays and that of the advanced level students’ essays. Students’ lexical richness vocabulary were measured using RANGE program developed by Nation, Heatley & Coxhead (2002). Although this study is still in progress, it is predicted that advanced learner students would be using a greater frequency of words at the upper levels of 5,000 and 10,000 word levels implying that there is a development of higher frequency vocabulary in advanced learners thus indicating greater lexical richness.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Muhamad, Ainon Jariah Esa, Zaleha
author_facet	Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza Muhamad, Ainon Jariah Esa, Zaleha
author_sort	Engku Ibrahim, Engku Haliza
title	Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison
title_short	Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison
title_full	Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison
title_fullStr	Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison
title_full_unstemmed	Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison
title_sort	lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced efl learner: a comparison
publishDate	2016
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Lexical richness of pre-sessional and advanced EFL learner: A comparison

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