Category: Volume 1 Number 1 (2012)
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction
Volume 1 Number 1 (2012)
New directions in L2 lexical development
Shigenori Tanaka - Lexical competence can be defined as one's ability to use words differentially and fully.
Lexical development and learners’ practices in a content-based learning course
Andy Barfield - Developing a better understanding of the beliefs and practices that students hold concerning their English vocabulary development…
The Frequency Model of Vocabulary Learning and Japanese Learners
Dale Brown - The frequency model of vocabulary learning, the idea that words are learnt broadly in order of their…
A Study of Learners’ Intuitions Behind the Use of Utterance Verbs in English
Yoshiaki Sato, Aaron Batty - Verbs of utterance are some of the most fundamental verbs in the English language, yet…
Utilizing Student-Generated Pictures for Formative Vocabulary Instruction
Charles J. Anderson - Contemporary vocabulary learning strategies focus on the learner.
Four Empirical Vocabulary Test Studies in the Three Dimensional Framework
Masamichi Mochizuki - In this paper I would like to briefly overview vocabulary testing literature and discuss the four empirical…
A Multiple-Choice Test of Active Vocabulary Knowledge
Jeffrey Stewart - Most researchers distinguish between receptive (passive) and productive (active) word knowledge.
Rie Koizumi - Lexical diversity (LD) measures have been known to be sensitive to the length of the text, and…
Identifying Dimensions of Vocabulary Knowledge in the Word Associates Test
Aaron Batty - Depth of vocabulary knowledge (DVK) (i.e. how much a learner knows about the words he knows) is…
Examining the Validity of the Lexical Access Time Test (LEXATT2)
Tatsuo Iso - This study aimed to investigate the validity of the Lexical Access Time Test (LEXATT2).