Category: Volume 8 Number 1 (2019)
Vocabulary Learning and Instruction
Volume 8 Number 1 (2019)
Shin'ichiro Ishikawa - By comparing the vocabularies included in the Japan Association of College English Teachers (JACET) wordlists (1993, 2003,…
Michael McGuire - The concept of data-driven learning (DDL) - direct student use of corpora - has been gaining attention…
Evaluating Corpora with Word Lists and Word Difficulty
Brent A. Culligan - This study examines the application of an IRT analysis of words on lists including the General…
Commentary on Four Studies for JALT Vocabulary SIG
Yukio Tono - The four papers in this volume focused on mainly three areas: readability (Pinchbeck), wordlist evaluation (Ishikawa, Culligan),…
An examination of the New General Service List
Tim Stoeckel - The New General Service List (NGSL, Browne, Culligan, & Phillips, 2013b) was published on an interim basis…
Evaluating the Efficacy of Yes-No Checklist Tests to Assess Knowledge of Multi-Word Lexical Units
Raymond Stubbe, Yumiko Cochrane - One of the many challenges facing Japanese university students studying English is the multi-word phrase.
Comparing the Effectiveness of Word Cards and List Learning with Japanese Learners of English
Magda L. Kitano, Katsuhiro Chiba - This study investigated the recall of words learned through two deliberate learning techniques, word…
Foreign Language Vocabulary Learning and the Type of Processing-Resource Allocation Model
Shusaku Kida - This paper argues the nature of adult foreign or second language (L2) vocabulary learning and points out…
Validating the construct of readability in EFL contexts: A proposal for criteria
Geoffrey G. Pinchbeck - This article examines how English as a foreign language learners might be better matched to reading…
Vocabulary Instruction and Learning: A Commentary on Four Studies
Jenifer Larson-Hall - Four papers were presented by Shusaku Kida, Magda Kitano and Katsuhiro Chiba, Tim Stoeckel, and Raymond Stubbe.