Manuscript received January 29, 2023; revised March 21, 2023; accepted April 13, 2023.
Abstract—The study aims to assess the general and academic
lexical competence of university students and develop an
educational strategy for Russian language learning using media
content. The present study examines the general and academic
productivity and satisfaction of students. The sample included
120 individuals. The study uses multiple testing methods
including two different vocabulary tests, written and oral
assignments, and the post-experimental questionnaire. The data
collection was performed in September, the autumn semester of
2020. The participants were tested using the Vocabulary Size
Test and Word Associates Test (RL). Vocabulary size and depth
were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The scholars
identified that the students had strong general and academic
vocabulary knowledge. At the same time, students used
high-frequency words more often than low-frequency words
and academic vocabulary. Moreover, productive vocabulary
assessment showed poor results in terms of receptive vocabulary
knowledge. In this case, students could not use lexical
competence and lexical knowledge in language activities. Thus,
the choice of the most effective method for teaching the Russian
language depended on the data of residual knowledge and the
combination of traditional language learning methods and
media content.
Index Terms—Russian language, student teaching, lexical
competence, vocabulary breadth, vocabulary depth, academic
vocabulary
Zhannat Maigeldiyeva is with the Department of the Russian Language
and Literature, Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University, Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan.
Zukhra Abdrakhmanova is with the Department of the Russian Language
and Literature, M. Kh. Dulaty Taraz Regional University, Taraz, Kazakhstan.
Email: zuk_abdrakhman@rambler.ru (Z.A.)
Olga Pavlovskaya is with the Department of the Russian Language and
Speech Communication, Kuban State Agrarian University, Krasnodar,
Russian Federation, Russia. E-mail: oepa@mail.ru (O.P.)
*Corresponding author: maigeldiyeva@rambler.ru (Z.M.)
Cite: Zhannat Maigeldiyeva*, Zukhra Abdrakhmanova, and Olga Pavlovskaya, "Assessing the General and Academic Lexical Competencies: Evidence from Online Russian Vocabulary Size Test and Word Associations Test (RL)," International Journal of Information and Education Technology vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1297-1303, 2023.
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