Four-stage model of lexical skill and speech ability development underlying the exercise complex

Design · All designs
Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 causal), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

The exercise complex used with the thesaurus and dictionary rests on four interrelated stages of lexical skills and speech abilities development: 1) semantization and reproduction of lexical means; 2) stereotyping and varying of lexical means; 3) systematic application of FL lexical skills, their dynamic integration with other speech skills during oral and written communication; 4) synthesis and systematization of FL lexical skills at the stage of development of creative speech abilities. During the first two stages the Thesaurus and Dictionary serves as an external informative basis; at later stages it is used as a source of additional information. The stated purpose is developing the students' foreign language mental lexicon.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

• A special complex of exercises for developing foreign language lexical skills and speech abilities (informative reading, monological speaking) aligned to the four stages

Constraints

Target Learners

• university students learning English for professional purposes

Learning Goals

• foreign language lexical skills
• informative reading
• monological speaking

Claims

• Using the Learner's terminological thesaurus and dictionary yields a statistically significant pooled advantage over regular instruction in lexical-skill outcomes [+W]
• 95% of experimental-learning participants reached sufficient or high levels of lexical skills and speech abilities by course end [+W]

Related Designs

Examples

-

Key Sources

• Chainikova, G.R., Zatonskiy, A.V., Mitiukov, N.W., Busygina, H.L. (2018). Development of Foreign Language Lexical Competence on the Basis of a Learner’s Terminological Thesaurus and Dictionary. European Journal of Contemporary Education, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.13187/ejced.2018.1.51

Page metadata

Field	Value
type	design
id	four-stage-lexical-skills-development-model
title	Four-stage model of lexical skill and speech ability development underlying the exercise complex
description	The exercise complex used with the thesaurus and dictionary rests on four interrelated stages of lexical skills and speech abilities development: 1) semantization and reproduction of lexical means; 2) stereotyping and...
status	review
generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-11-03
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — chainikova-2018

Frontmatter is the page's machine-readable record — see the Schema & Guide.