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Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Lexical Load of the Reading Comprehension Texts in EFL Textbooks

Research has revealed numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. On... more Research has revealed numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. One of these problems concerns students’ performance in reading comprehension tasks. Given the assumption that a large proportion of the problem can be attributed to lexical deficiency, this study sets out to evaluate the vocabulary load of the reading comprehension texts in EFL second-year baccalaureate textbooks. This was actualized through determining how much text coverage students could achieve with their vocabulary knowledge. To this end, a sample of 106 Moroccan bac2 (second- year baccalaureate) students was non-randomly sampled, and their vocabulary knowledge was assessed using an updated version of the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT). In parallel, the vocabulary profiles of the reading texts in the three EFL textbooks were described using the Vocabulary Profiler software. Results have shown that students have a rather impoverished vocabulary knowledge of approximately 1317 word families, which have thus revealed a gap between their actual knowledge and the lexical load contained in their textbooks.

Research paper thumbnail of Coming to Grips with the ESP Enterprise: Some Basic Tenets and Fundamental Issues

The present paper is an attempt to demystify the basic tenets related to the ESP enterprise. Its ... more The present paper is an attempt to demystify the basic tenets related to the ESP enterprise. Its main goal is to familiarize the reader with the nature of ESP, the role of NA as the cornerstone of any ESP program, and some of the implication of NA and the agents they essentially bear on. These agents, nevertheless, may at times come to mismatch in regard to the perceived needs of the ESP learners; we will endeavor to tackle some suggested ways in this mismatch can be handled.

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Lexical Load of the Reading Comprehension Texts in Second Year Baccalaureate Textbooks: A Corpus-based Approach

Research has unveiled numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. On... more Research has unveiled numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. One of these problems concerns students’ performance in reading comprehension. Many studies have also shown that students’ vocabulary knowledge plays a central role in predicting their performance in a variety of language skills, notably in reading comprehension. This being the case, this research set out to evaluate the vocabulary load of the reading comprehensions texts in second year baccalaureate textbooks of English. This was actualized through determining how much text coverage students could achieve with their vocabulary knowledge. For this purpose, a sample of 106 Moroccan students were non-randomly sampled, and their vocabulary knowledge was assessed using an updated version of the VLT. In parallel, the vocabulary profiles of the reading texts in the three existing EFL textbooks were described using the Vocabulary Profiler software. Results have shown that students have a rather impoverished vocabulary knowledge of approximately 1317 word families, which have thus revealed a gap between their actual knowledge and the lexical load contained in the textbooks. A number of pedagogical implications have been drawn from these findings and directions for further research have been suggested.

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Research paper thumbnail of Syntactic Analysis of Standard Arabic Clauses: A Generative Perspective

Research paper thumbnail of The structure of clauses in Standard Arabic: Preliminary concepts

Research paper thumbnail of ICT in Education Why ICT is underused in schools and how teachers can promote their use of ICT tools

There seems to be a growing consensus among researchers and practitioners in the educational aren... more There seems to be a growing consensus among researchers and practitioners in the educational arena that ICT is of great potential to bringing about changes in the field of education. Nevertheless, ICT tools, despite their abundance and ease of use and access, remain underused by many teachers. This being the case, this paper endeavors to shed light on some of the factors that stand in the way of an effective use of ICT tools in schools. Also, it draws on some recent models that have been proposed to address the factors in question in order to foreground some important teacher characteristics which appear to be necessary for effective use of ICT in education.

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Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Lexical Load of the Reading Comprehension Texts in EFL Textbooks

International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies

Research has revealed numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. On... more Research has revealed numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. One of these problems concerns students’ performance in reading comprehension tasks. Given the assumption that a large proportion of the problem can be attributed to lexical deficiency, this study sets out to evaluate the vocabulary load of the reading comprehension texts in EFL second-year baccalaureate textbooks. This was actualized through determining how much text coverage students could achieve with their vocabulary knowledge. To this end, a sample of 106 Moroccan bac2 (second-year baccalaureate) students was non-randomly sampled, and their vocabulary knowledge was assessed using an updated version of the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT). In parallel, the vocabulary profiles of the reading texts in the three EFL textbooks were described using the Vocabulary Profiler software. Results have shown that students have a rather impoverished vocabulary knowledge of approximately 1317 word famili...

Research paper thumbnail of Coming to Grips with the ESP Enterprise : Some Basic Tenets and Fundamental Issues Abdelmalek

The present paper is an attempt to demystify the basic tenets related to the ESP enterprise. Its ... more The present paper is an attempt to demystify the basic tenets related to the ESP enterprise. Its main goal is to familiarize the reader with the nature of ESP, the role of NA as the cornerstone of any ESP program, and some of the implication of NA and the agents they essentially bear on. These agents, nevertheless, may at times come to mismatch in regard to the perceived needs of the ESP learners; we will endeavor to tackle some suggested ways in this mismatch can be handled. International Arab Journal of English for Specific Purposes (IAJESP) Vol.1. No.2 2018 International Arab Journal of English for Specific Purposes (IAJESP) Vol.1. No.2 2018 Coming to Grips with the ESP Enterprise EL MORABIT _____________________________________________________________________________________ 60 International Arab Journal of English for Specific Purposes https://revues.imist.ma/ p-ISSN: 2605-6658 e-ISSN: 2605-762X 1. The nature and origin of ESP One might wonder how English has got to have all th...

Research paper thumbnail of Linguistic Treatises: Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition

Linguistic Forum - A Journal of Linguistics, 2020

He who reviews recent vocabulary research finds out that the field is still half-grown. Despite t... more He who reviews recent vocabulary research finds out that the field is still half-grown. Despite the fact that a bundle of questions has been raised very earlier on, the field has witnessed groundless neglect for quite a long time. Presumably, Chomsky’s revolution in linguistics has shifted attention away from lexis to an introspective examination of syntactic structures. Also, with the advent of the communicative paradigm, little attention was given to lexis inasmuch as lexical competence was injudiciously viewed as part of the grammatical competence alongside other linguistic forms (phonological forms, morphological forms, syntactic patterns, etc.) (Canale & Swain, 1980). Interest in vocabulary only increased again around the eighteens when a few foundational articles by pioneers in the fields including Paul Meara and Paul Nation emerged. Regardless of the relative recency of vocabulary research, it has gone a good way linking research from a variety of areas to produce very interesting insights into how vocabulary is acquired, processed, attrited, and how it should be handled by language teachers in formal contexts.

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Lexical Load of the Reading Comprehension Texts in EFL Textbooks

Research has revealed numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. On... more Research has revealed numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. One of these problems concerns students’ performance in reading comprehension tasks. Given the assumption that a large proportion of the problem can be attributed to lexical deficiency, this study sets out to evaluate the vocabulary load of the reading comprehension texts in EFL second-year baccalaureate textbooks. This was actualized through determining how much text coverage students could achieve with their vocabulary knowledge. To this end, a sample of 106 Moroccan bac2 (second- year baccalaureate) students was non-randomly sampled, and their vocabulary knowledge was assessed using an updated version of the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT). In parallel, the vocabulary profiles of the reading texts in the three EFL textbooks were described using the Vocabulary Profiler software. Results have shown that students have a rather impoverished vocabulary knowledge of approximately 1317 word families, which have thus revealed a gap between their actual knowledge and the lexical load contained in their textbooks.

Research paper thumbnail of Coming to Grips with the ESP Enterprise: Some Basic Tenets and Fundamental Issues

The present paper is an attempt to demystify the basic tenets related to the ESP enterprise. Its ... more The present paper is an attempt to demystify the basic tenets related to the ESP enterprise. Its main goal is to familiarize the reader with the nature of ESP, the role of NA as the cornerstone of any ESP program, and some of the implication of NA and the agents they essentially bear on. These agents, nevertheless, may at times come to mismatch in regard to the perceived needs of the ESP learners; we will endeavor to tackle some suggested ways in this mismatch can be handled.

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Lexical Load of the Reading Comprehension Texts in Second Year Baccalaureate Textbooks: A Corpus-based Approach

Research has unveiled numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. On... more Research has unveiled numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. One of these problems concerns students’ performance in reading comprehension. Many studies have also shown that students’ vocabulary knowledge plays a central role in predicting their performance in a variety of language skills, notably in reading comprehension. This being the case, this research set out to evaluate the vocabulary load of the reading comprehensions texts in second year baccalaureate textbooks of English. This was actualized through determining how much text coverage students could achieve with their vocabulary knowledge. For this purpose, a sample of 106 Moroccan students were non-randomly sampled, and their vocabulary knowledge was assessed using an updated version of the VLT. In parallel, the vocabulary profiles of the reading texts in the three existing EFL textbooks were described using the Vocabulary Profiler software. Results have shown that students have a rather impoverished vocabulary knowledge of approximately 1317 word families, which have thus revealed a gap between their actual knowledge and the lexical load contained in the textbooks. A number of pedagogical implications have been drawn from these findings and directions for further research have been suggested.

Research paper thumbnail of Syntactic Analysis of Standard Arabic Clauses: A Generative Perspective

Research paper thumbnail of The structure of clauses in Standard Arabic: Preliminary concepts

Research paper thumbnail of ICT in Education Why ICT is underused in schools and how teachers can promote their use of ICT tools

There seems to be a growing consensus among researchers and practitioners in the educational aren... more There seems to be a growing consensus among researchers and practitioners in the educational arena that ICT is of great potential to bringing about changes in the field of education. Nevertheless, ICT tools, despite their abundance and ease of use and access, remain underused by many teachers. This being the case, this paper endeavors to shed light on some of the factors that stand in the way of an effective use of ICT tools in schools. Also, it draws on some recent models that have been proposed to address the factors in question in order to foreground some important teacher characteristics which appear to be necessary for effective use of ICT in education.

Research paper thumbnail of Evaluating the Lexical Load of the Reading Comprehension Texts in EFL Textbooks

International Journal of Linguistics and Translation Studies

Research has revealed numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. On... more Research has revealed numerous problems regarding the teaching and learning of EFL in Morocco. One of these problems concerns students’ performance in reading comprehension tasks. Given the assumption that a large proportion of the problem can be attributed to lexical deficiency, this study sets out to evaluate the vocabulary load of the reading comprehension texts in EFL second-year baccalaureate textbooks. This was actualized through determining how much text coverage students could achieve with their vocabulary knowledge. To this end, a sample of 106 Moroccan bac2 (second-year baccalaureate) students was non-randomly sampled, and their vocabulary knowledge was assessed using an updated version of the Vocabulary Levels Test (VLT). In parallel, the vocabulary profiles of the reading texts in the three EFL textbooks were described using the Vocabulary Profiler software. Results have shown that students have a rather impoverished vocabulary knowledge of approximately 1317 word famili...

Research paper thumbnail of Coming to Grips with the ESP Enterprise : Some Basic Tenets and Fundamental Issues Abdelmalek

The present paper is an attempt to demystify the basic tenets related to the ESP enterprise. Its ... more The present paper is an attempt to demystify the basic tenets related to the ESP enterprise. Its main goal is to familiarize the reader with the nature of ESP, the role of NA as the cornerstone of any ESP program, and some of the implication of NA and the agents they essentially bear on. These agents, nevertheless, may at times come to mismatch in regard to the perceived needs of the ESP learners; we will endeavor to tackle some suggested ways in this mismatch can be handled. International Arab Journal of English for Specific Purposes (IAJESP) Vol.1. No.2 2018 International Arab Journal of English for Specific Purposes (IAJESP) Vol.1. No.2 2018 Coming to Grips with the ESP Enterprise EL MORABIT _____________________________________________________________________________________ 60 International Arab Journal of English for Specific Purposes https://revues.imist.ma/ p-ISSN: 2605-6658 e-ISSN: 2605-762X 1. The nature and origin of ESP One might wonder how English has got to have all th...

Research paper thumbnail of Linguistic Treatises: Second Language Vocabulary Acquisition

Linguistic Forum - A Journal of Linguistics, 2020

He who reviews recent vocabulary research finds out that the field is still half-grown. Despite t... more He who reviews recent vocabulary research finds out that the field is still half-grown. Despite the fact that a bundle of questions has been raised very earlier on, the field has witnessed groundless neglect for quite a long time. Presumably, Chomsky’s revolution in linguistics has shifted attention away from lexis to an introspective examination of syntactic structures. Also, with the advent of the communicative paradigm, little attention was given to lexis inasmuch as lexical competence was injudiciously viewed as part of the grammatical competence alongside other linguistic forms (phonological forms, morphological forms, syntactic patterns, etc.) (Canale & Swain, 1980). Interest in vocabulary only increased again around the eighteens when a few foundational articles by pioneers in the fields including Paul Meara and Paul Nation emerged. Regardless of the relative recency of vocabulary research, it has gone a good way linking research from a variety of areas to produce very interesting insights into how vocabulary is acquired, processed, attrited, and how it should be handled by language teachers in formal contexts.