INVESTIGATING THE GENERAL ENGLISH VOCABULARY LEVEL OF VOCATIONAL COLLEGE STUDENTS IN CHINA UNDER CSE STANDARD
Keywords:
English vocabulary level, Vocational college studentsAbstract
This study employed a quantitative method using the English Vocabulary Size Test (Schmitt & Clapham, 2001) and Word Association Test (Read, 2014) to investigate vocational college students’ English Vocabulary levels in breadth and depth, hoping to find out the long-living problems existing in English learning and teaching in China’s vocational colleges. The main findings are that vocational college students’ vocabulary breadth remains at approximately 2500 words, failing up to the requirements of CSE (2018) as prescribed. 2) Their vocabulary depth is much lower than the vocabulary size, far short of the required level.
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