Vocabulary Instruction and Learning: A Commentary on Four Studies

David Beglar - Four papers were presented by Jenifer Larson-Hall, Noriko Matsuda, Yu Kanazawa, and Phil Bennett.

Initial Evaluation of AWSuM: A Pilot Study

Atsushi Mizumoto - This article reports on a pilot study to evaluate usability, effectiveness, and impact of Academic Word Suggestion…

Coverage-based Frequency Bands: A Proposal

Dale Brown - Second language vocabulary research makes much use of word frequency lists and their division into bands.

Discovering Language Properties through Corpus-Based Dictionary Data Analysis

Paul A. Lyddon - To reveal underlying patterns in real language use, linguists have increasingly come to rely on corpus…

Measuring the Vocabulary Burden of Popular English Songs

Rick Romanko - This study measured the vocabulary burden of popular English songs to determine what vocabulary is needed to…

Corpus Linguistics and Vocabulary: A Commentary on Four Studies

Laurence Anthony - Tools and methods developed in the field of corpus linguistics play an often understated but important role…

Impact of talker variability on L2 word recognition among Japanese EFL learners

Noriko Matsuda - This article is a pilot study investigating auditory word priming in 40 Japanese learners of English using…

Letter from the 2017 Vocabulary SIG Symposium Organizers

Brandon Kramer, Stuart McLean - Letter from the 2017 Vocabulary SIG Symposium Organizers.

L2 Lexical Attrition and Vocabulary Re-learning in Three L1 English L2 Japanese Children

Jenifer Larson-Hall - In this paper I review the evidence for the role of age in affecting second language attrition,…

Emotion-Involved Semantic Processing and L2 Vocabulary Memory: A Micro-Level Emotion Manifesto

Yu Kanazawa - Emotion-Involved Semantic Processing and L2 Vocabulary Memory: A Micro-Level Emotion Manifesto.

Using Cognitive Linguistic Principles to Encourage Production of Metaphorical Vocabulary in Writing

Phil Bennett - Learners in academic English environments face considerable demands on their lexical knowledge.

Published in association
with the JALT VOCAB SIG