期刊名称：International Journal of Educational Research and Technology
印刷版ISSN：0976-4089
出版年度：2010
卷号：1
期号：1
页码：46-53
出版社：Society of Education
摘要：This study was an attempt to find the relationship between proficiency and size of vocabulary of 80 freshmen students majoring in English Language and literature both in Iran and in India as representatives of EFL/ESL contexts. Furthermore, it was intended to measure receptive size of vocabulary of the participants totally and at different frequency levels by Nation's (1990) vocabulary level test. The results of correlation between proficiency and vocabulary level test showed a highly positive correlation both for Iranian and Indian participants. Regarding different frequency vocabulary levels, again significant correlations were observed for Indian participants. While, for Iranian participants no statistically significant correlation were observed between 5000 low frequency word, Academic vocabularies and proficiency, for the rest the results were significant. In addition, by means of a set of t-tests between proficiency as well as the size of vocabulary of Iranian and Indian participants it was find out that the results were significant. This implied that the Indian participants outscored their Iranian counterparts with higher proficiency and size of vocabulary
