This article overviews current research on second language vocabulary learning. It concludes
that a large vocabulary is necessary to function in English: 8000—9000 word families for …

Review and metaanalyses of published validation studies for the years 1964‐1982 of Journal
of Applied Psychology and Personnel Psychology were undertaken to examine the effect …

A review of efforts to assess the invariance of measurement instruments across different
respondent groups using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) is provided for the years since the …

… Diane Schmitt works in the areas of syllabus design, materials development, and test
development with emphases on vocabulary acquisition, all aspects of English for Academic …

… be equal to [N times the single item reliability]/[1 + (N − 1) times the single item reliability]. …
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Neal Schmitt, Department of …

… Fresh blood samples were also collected from JDM (n = 52), PSOA patients (n = 31), and
age-matched pediatric controls (n = 43). Detailed clinical characteristics, clinical lab data, and …

… term that encompassed all of these involvement possibilities, and so in an overview of
instructed second-language vocabulary instruction, I proposed the term engagement (Schmitt, …

Studies of the influence of trainee characteristics on training effectiveness have focused on
the ability level necessary to learn program content. Motivational and environmental …

The Vocabulary Levels Test has been widely used in language assessment and vocabulary
research despite never having been properly validated. This article reports on a study which …

This research examined gender differences in Internet use and factors responsible for these
differences. A sample of 630 Anglo American undergraduates completed the Student …