The Interplay of EFL Learners’ Vocabulary Depth and Their Writing Ability

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to find out the relationship between vocabulary depth and writing
performance of Iranian EFL learners. The participants were 150 male and female EFL learners of English
in language institutes in Shiraz, Iran who were selected conveniently. In so doing, the Words Associate
Test designed by Read (1998) was administered to the learners to measure their depth of vocabulary. A
writing achievement test was also developed and administered by the researchers. The results showed that
there is a Positive correlation between vocabulary depth and writing performance of Iranian language
learners. Regression analysis showed that vocabulary depth moderately predicts the learners’ writing.