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Speaking skills and receptive vocabulary knowledge in 8th and 9th grades EFL students.
(Universidad de Concepción, 2024) Iraira Erices, Camila Loreto; Yáñez Vásquez, Luis Felipe; Sanhueza Campos, Cristian Hernán
This study investigates the relationship between speaking skills and receptive vocabulary knowledge in 8th and 9th -grade Chilean students in a semi-private and a private school, respectively, with the objective of establishing a correlation between the two variables. This cross-sectional, non-experimental research, with a quantitative approach, took 54 students from a semi-private school and 33 from a private school. Their speaking skills were assessed using the speaking part of the Key English Test (KET) for the 8th graders, the Preliminary English Test (PET) for the 9th graders, and the whole sample’s receptive vocabulary knowledge by the Updated Vocabulary Levels Test (UVLT). The findings indicated that 8 th -grade students possess a low level of receptive vocabulary knowledge and low speaking proficiency. On the other hand, 9 th -grade students showed relatively high performances in UVLT and PET. Furthermore, the degree of correlation for both groups was positive when the speaking skill was correlated with UVLT results in their totality, but inconsistencies were X found when doing so with UVLT results by band. These results can be attributed to institutional instruction, age, overall proficiency, commitment to the testing, amongst other factors.