WordUp: An App that Teaches English Words through Extensive Exposure to Authentic Materials

Musa Nushi, Alireza Aghaei, Maryam Roshanbin - This paper reviews WordUp, a mobile application which fosters English vocabulary learning through…

“That Sounds About Right”–Lexical Bundle Naturalness Intuitions in Japanese Learners of English

Julian Northbrook, Kathy Conklin - The current study examines the perceived naturalness of lexical bundles learned from early-stage teaching materials…

Longitudinal Measurement of the Vocabulary Size of Japanese Junior High School Students: Developing a Vocabulary Size Test for Beginner Learners

Tsuyoshi Sato - As vocabulary plays an important part in L2 learning at the beginner level, investigation into vocabulary learning…

Predicting Japanese Primary Schoolchildren’s English Vocabulary Knowledge from a Sound-Meaning Recognition Test

Kohei Kanayama - The purposes of this study were to: (1) build an appropriate model for predicting primary schoolchildren's English…

Challenges in the Assumptions of Using a Flemma-based Word Counting Unit

Tomoko Ishii, Phil Bennett, Tim Stoeckel - The choice of word counting units (i.

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