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ABSTRACT

The study investigated on the psycholinguistic research of personal approach of

students to learning English topical vocabulary. The population of this study

comprised all lecturers teaching English Language in tertiary institutions Kano

State. The study adopted descriptive Survey design, while simple random sampling

technique in selecting 400 respondents for the study. The study used questionnaire

for data collection. The questionnaire was designed using the four point Likert type

scale and divided into two sections (A and B) which helped measure the

respondents’ personal data and the research variables respectively after the

instrument vetting by 1 expert of test and measurement. The reliability test was

conducted with 30 respondents and the result which was 0.88 proved the

instrument reliable for the study. Data collected were analysed using descriptive

statistics to answer research questions and regression analysis for test of

hypotheses. The results of the data analyses were all significant and from the

results of the analysis, it was observed that there is significant influence of

language acquisition on effective learning of English topical vocabulary. It was

also observed that there is significant influence of language comprehension on

effective learning of English topical vocabulary. It was concluded that there is high

influence of language acquisition and language comprehension on effective

learning of English topical vocabulary. One of the recommendation was that There

should be increased use of think-aloud protocols in the study of decontextualized

vocabulary learning; a greater focus on how lexical acquisition takes place in

beginning L2 learners, investigations into whether acquiring a wider, richer and

more automatized vocabulary plays a role in the acquisition of morpho-syntax;

investigations into the relationships that exist between the development of

vocabulary breadth, elaborated knowledge, and automaticity.

SHARED SEASONED INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF

LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS, 2(1), UNITED STATES..

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Mabel Ehimen IMOOJE, Mangut Danjuma GANDU

& Zainab Umar SALEH

KEYWORDS: language acquisition, effective learning, English topical vocabulary, language comprehension