Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wyoming, 2006. / Title from PDF title page (viewed on Dec. 18, 2007). Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-140).

Ng, Chun Ho. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-128). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.iv / Chapter CHAPTER 1 --- INTRODUCTION / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Reasons for Carrying out the Present Study --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Significance of the Study --- p.4 / Chapter 1.4 --- Research Questions --- p.7 / Chapter 1.5 --- Organization of Thesis --- p.8 / Chapter 1.6 --- Summary --- p.9 / Chapter CHAPTER 2 --- LITERATURE REIVEW / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction --- p.10 / Chapter 2.2 --- Importance of Vocabulary --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3 --- Vocabulary Knowledge --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Definition of a ´بword´ة --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Definition of knowing a word --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3.2.1 --- Richards' eight assumptions --- p.14 / Chapter 2.3.2.2 --- Carter's seven characteristics --- p.16 / Chapter 2.3.2.3 --- Nation's model --- p.18 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Receptive vocabulary versus productive vocabulary --- p.20 / Chapter 2.4 --- Vocabulary Learning and Acquisition --- p.21 / Chapter 2.4.1 --- L1 vocabulary VS L2 vocabulary --- p.21 / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Incidental learning versus Explicit learning --- p.22 / Chapter 2.5 --- Vocabulary Testing --- p.24 / Chapter 2.5.1 --- Vocabulary measuring instruments --- p.24 / Chapter 2.5.2 --- Vocabulary frequency levels --- p.26 / Chapter 2.5.3 --- Laufer and Nation (1999)'s Productive Vocabulary Levels Test --- p.27 / Chapter 2.6 --- Local Education System ´ؤ English Language Teaching and Medium of Instruction Policy --- p.28 / Chapter 2.6.1 --- Current trend in language testing --- p.28 / Chapter 2.6.2 --- Vocabulary wordlist --- p.29 / Chapter 2.6.3 --- Medium of instruction --- p.30 / Chapter 2.7 --- Recent Relevant Vocabulary Studies in Hong Kong --- p.33 / Chapter 2.7.1 --- Littlewood and Liu (1996) --- p.34 / Chapter 2.7.2 --- Barber (1999) --- p.34 / Chapter 2.7.3 --- Cobb and Horst (2000) --- p.35 / Chapter 2.7.4 --- Fan (2001) --- p.36 / Chapter 2.7.5 --- Chui (2004) --- p.37 / Chapter 2.8 --- The Need for Further Studies --- p.37 / Chapter 2.9 --- Summary --- p.40 / Chapter CHAPTER 3 --- RESEARCH DESIGN / Chapter 3.1 --- Introduction --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2 --- Participants --- p.42 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Selection of participants --- p.41 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- Profile of participants --- p.44 / Chapter 3.2.2.1 --- Different streams of studies --- p.45 / Chapter 3.2.2.2 --- Participants' mother tongue and their English learning experience --- p.47 / Chapter 3.2.2.3 --- Participants' results in English in HKCEE --- p.47 / Chapter 3.2.2.4 --- Participants' results in HKCEE --- p.49 / Chapter 3.3 --- Instrumentation --- p.51 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- Questionnaire --- p.51 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Vocabulary test --- p.52 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Measuring productive vocabulary knowledge --- p.54 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Vocabulary breadth measure --- p.55 / Chapter 3.4 --- Procedures --- p.57 / Chapter 3.5 --- Data Analysis --- p.59 / Chapter 3.6 --- Summary --- p.60 / Chapter CHAPTER 4 --- RESULTS / Chapter 4.1 --- Introduction --- p.61 / Chapter 4.2 --- Vocabulary Breadth --- p.61 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- Overall performance of Hong Kong senior secondary school students --- p.62 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Comparing performance of students with different educational backgrounds --- p.64 / Chapter 4.2.2.1 --- "Students in the Science, Business, and Arts streams" --- p.64 / Chapter 4.2.2.2 --- Students from Chinese-medium schools and English-medium schools --- p.67 / Chapter 4.2.2.3 --- Students using textbooks written in different languages --- p.70 / Chapter 4.3 --- Correlation Between Students' Vocabulary Size and Their Success in English in HKCEE --- p.73 / Chapter 4.4 --- Common Mistakes in Students' Answers --- p.77 / Chapter 4.5 --- Summary --- p.78 / Chapter CHAPTER 5 --- DISCUSSION / Chapter 5.1 --- Introduction --- p.80 / Chapter 5.2 --- Vocabulary Size of Senior Secondary School Students in Hong Kong --- p.80 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- General vocabulary --- p.80 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- "Problems encountered in reading, listening, speaking and listening" --- p.82 / Chapter 5.2.3 --- Academic vocabulary --- p.86 / Chapter 5.3 --- Comparison between the Present Study and Past Research Conducted in Hong Kong --- p.87 / Chapter 5.3.1 --- Chui (2004) --- p.87 / Chapter 5.4 --- Medium of Instruction Policy --- p.93 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Effects of medium of instruction on vocabulary learning of Hong Kong senior secondary school students --- p.95 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Effects of language of textbooks on vocabulary learning of Hong Kong senior secondary school students --- p.104 / Chapter 5.5 --- Significant Patterns Regarding the Performance of Participants of Different English Results in the HKCEE in the Vocabulary Test --- p.111 / Chapter 5.6 --- Summary --- p.112 / Chapter CHAPTER 6 --- CONCLUSION / Chapter 6.1 --- Introduction --- p.113 / Chapter 6.2 --- Implications of the Present Study --- p.113 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Recommendation to secondary school English teachers --- p.113 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Recommendation to secondary schools in Hong Kong --- p.116 / Chapter 6.2.3 --- Recommendation to the Hong Kong Government --- p.117 / Chapter 6.3 --- Limitations of the Present Study --- p.118 / Chapter 6.4 --- Suggestions for Further Research --- p.120 / Chapter 6.5 --- Summary --- p.121 / REFERNCES --- p.123 / APPENDICES / Appendix A Invitation Letter to Schools in Hong Kong --- p.129 / Appendix B Questionnaire for the Research Study --- p.130 / Appendix C Productive Vocabulary Levels Test --- p.132 / Appendix D Suggested Answers for the Productive Vocabulary Levels Test --- p.136 / "Appendix E Table 11 (Results of Scheffe Post-hoc Test for Comparing the Mean Scores of Students in Different Streams, Science, Arts and Business.)" --- p.137 / Appendix F Table 18 (Results of post-hoc test comparing the scores of students achieving different English grades in the HKCEE.) --- p.139 / Appendix G Table 27 (Results of post-hoc tests comparing the mean scores of students in different groups using different combinations of medium of instruction in junior forms and senior forms) --- p.144 / Appendix H Table 32 (Results of post-hoc test comparing the scores of students using textbooks written in different combinations of languages in junior forms and senior forms in the vocabulary test) --- p.159