词汇深度知识在阅读理解中的作用The Roles of Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge in

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Abstract
This paper will test the vocabulary breadth knowledge and the vocabulary depth knowledge of the English learners under the vocabulary knowledge framework of Nation (2001) and three lexical hypothesis theory of Henriksen (1999). Importantly, this paper will study how the vocabulary breadth knowledge and the vocabulary depth knowledge play the role in the English reading comprehension. Study results also showed that the vocabulary breadth knowledge in the four forms of positive memories form have the strongest predictive power of reading and vocabulary depth knowledge in lexical meaning better than matching to predict the learner's reading abilities.
Keywords：Vocabulary breadth knowledge;      Vocabulary depth knowledge;      Reading comprehension

摘要
本文主要以著名词汇研究专家Nation建立的词汇知识框架与Henriksen的三维度词汇假说为理论基础构建理论框架，旨在探讨高中生词汇知识的广度和深度与阅读理解的关系。本文将研究词汇广度知识和词汇深度知识在英语阅读理解中的作用。文章研究结果还表明，在词汇广度知识的四个样态中积极回忆样态对阅读有最强的预测力，而词汇深度知识中的词汇意义比搭配更能预测学习者的阅读能力。
关键词：词汇广度知识；词汇深度知识；阅读理解

Contents
1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………1
2. Literature Review…………………………………………………………………...1
    2.1 Literature Review………………………………………………………….....1
    2.2 Definition of breadth and depth of vocabulary………………………....…....3
    2.3 Breadth measurement and depth evaluation of vocabulary……………...…...4
2.3.1 Breadth measurement…………………………………...…………...4
2.3.2 Depth evaluation of vocabulary……………………………..……....4
3. Methodology…………………………………………………………….............….6
3.1 Research questions……………………………………........………………...6
3.2 Research subjects…………….………………………......…….…………….7
3.3 Tests……..…………………………………………………….........….….… 8
3.3.1 Vocabulary breadth knowledge test……………………….................8
3.3.2 Vocabulary depth knowledge test…………………….............……...9
3.3.3 Reading comprehension test……………………..........….…...……..9
3.3.4 Testing process……………………………….....……….…………10
4. Results and Discussion…………………………………………………….........…10
    4.1 Analysis of experimental data……………………………….........….……..10
    4.2 Discussion of experimental data…………………………….........….……..16
5. Conclusion……………………………………………………………...........….…17
References………………………………………………………………....……...….18
 
Effects of Vocabulary Knowledge of Senior high Students on their Reading Comprehension

1. Introduction

Vocabulary is the cornerstone. In recent years, theory and empirical research on the second language vocabulary has become a new trend of vocabulary study. Apart from the vocabulary (the vocabulary breadth knowledge), researchers have been trying to more deeply explore and measure vocabulary knowledge on multiple dimensions, such as the vocabularybreadth knowledge and vocabulary depthknowledge.
Meanwhile, theresearchers have studied the relationships between the dimensions of vocabulary knowledge and comprehensive language abilities or individual skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. For learners of English as a second language, there is no doubt that vocabulary knowledge plays an important role in the English reading. The essential relationship between the vocabulary knowledge and reading comprehension ability has no conclusion because the confines of the development of vocabulary knowledge and testing tools and other factors.

5 Conclusion

According to the test results, the following conclusions are as followings.

The relationship among the vocabulary breadth knowledge, the vocabulary breadth knowledge and the reading comprehension is positive correlation which demonstrate the vocabulary breadth knowledge plays an important role in reading comprehension.
There is a significant correlation between the vocabulary breadth knowledge and the vocabulary depth knowledge. This result suggests that the relationship between the vocabulary breadth knowledge and the vocabulary depth knowledge is very close. The relationship in the two dimensions of the vocabulary knowledge is also relying on each other.

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