Vocabulary Learning and Instruction

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction

Editor-in-Chief: Stuart McLean
First Published: October 2012
Frequency: Twice per year
ISSN: TBA

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction (VLI) is an open-access international journal that provides a peer-reviewed forum for original research related to vocabulary acquisition, instruction and assessment. Submissions are encouraged from researchers and practitioners in both first language and EFL and ESL contexts. The journal is published biannually online in the growing tradition of open-access peer-reviewed research.

Vocabulary Learning and Instruction publishes both feature articles and short articles. Feature articles should be no more than 7000 words in length, including references and abstract. All tables, figures, appendices, images, and audio/video files should be both included in the text and uploaded separately. Short articles of up to 3000 words including brief reports, summaries or commentaries are also welcome.

Publication Details:
This is an open access journal.
All articles are freely available immediately on publication.
There are no fees for submitting to or publishing in this journal.

Publisher Information:
Ground Level, 470 St Kilda Road
Melbourne VIC 3004 Australia
Email: journals@castledown.com

Archives

Volume 1 Number 1 (2012)

Volume 2 Number 1 (2013)

Volume 3 Number 1 (2014)

Volume 3 Number 2 (2014)

Volume 4 Number 1 (2015)

Volume 4 Number 2 (2015)

Volume 5 Number 1 (2016)

Volume 6 Number 1 (2017)

Volume 6 Number 2 (2017)

Volume 7 Number 1 (2018)

Volume 8 Number 1 (2019)

Volume 9 Number 1 (2020)

Volume 9 Number 2 (2020)

Volume 10 Number 1 (2021)

Volume 10 Number 2 (2021)

Volume 11 Number 1 (2022)

Volume 11 Number 2 (2022)

Explore this Journal

Modeling lexical and phraseological sophistication in oral proficiency interviews: A conceptual replication

Masaki Eguchi – Modeling Lexical and Phraseological Sophistication in Oral Proficiency Interviews: A Conceptual Replication.

A commentary on four papers in the second language vocabulary learning strand for the JALT Vocabulary SIG

Junko Yamashita – In this commentary, the following four papers have been reviewed and discussed: Vocabulary Learning Outside of the Classroom: Institutional Use of a Spaced Repetition Vocabulary Learning App (Mueller & Hays, 2022), Developing a Discipline-Specific Corpus and High-Frequency…

Research syntheses in L2 vocabulary research: A scoping review

Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Joseph P. Vitta, Christopher Nicklin – In this brief report, we present a scoping review of 31 second language (L2) vocabulary research syntheses published in the Web of Science from January 1990 to May 2022.

Rater judgments and word difficulty: Conceptualizing the substantive validity of the VST

Derek N. Canning, Stuart McLean, Joseph P. Vitta – The substantive component of construct validity requires a confrontation between empirical test results and content relevance.

Some trends in vocabulary research: A discussion of three papers presented at the JALT Vocabulary SIG

Kristopher Kyle – The Japanese context is a particularly rich area for a wide range of vocabulary research.

Vocabulary Learning outside of the classroom: Institutional use of a spaced repetition

Kevin Mueller, George Hays – The Global Teaching Institute (GTI) at Tokyo International University (TIU) was founded in 2013 with 10 faculty members and now in 2022 has 55 faculty members.

Developing a discipline-specific corpus and high-frequency word list for science and engineering students in graduate school

Suwako Uehara, Hibiya Haraki, Stuart McLean – Japanese graduate school students in the field of science and engineering need to read academic research in their second language (L2), and such tasks can be challenging.

Rasch-based instrument validations for an augmented reality vocabulary acquisition experiment

Adam Dabrowski – The main purpose of this study was to provide validity evidence to support the creation and use of three instruments theorised to measure the existence of the form-meaning link between three sets of nonwords, and their assigned…

Orthographic processing of proper Names: A proposal to investigate the orthographic cue for second language readers

Kimberly Klassen – A standard treatment of proper names in second language (L2) vocabulary analyses is to categorize them as known items.

A Proposed Taxonomy of Test-Taking Action and Item Format in Written Receptive Vocabulary Testing

Jeffrey Martin – The functioning of a vocabulary testing instrument rests in part on the test-taking actions made possible for examinees by item format, an aspect of test development that warrants consideration in second-language vocabulary research.

Orthographic processing of proper Names: A proposal to investigate the orthographic cue for second language readers

Kimberly Klassen – A standard treatment of proper names in second language (L2) vocabulary analyses is to categorize them as known items.

Vocabulary Learning outside of the classroom: Institutional use of a spaced repetition

Kevin Mueller, George Hays – The Global Teaching Institute (GTI) at Tokyo International University (TIU) was founded in 2013 with 10 faculty members and now in 2022 has 55 faculty members.

Research syntheses in L2 vocabulary research: A scoping review

Ali H. Al-Hoorie, Joseph P. Vitta, Christopher Nicklin – In this brief report, we present a scoping review of 31 second language (L2) vocabulary research syntheses published in the Web of Science from January 1990 to May 2022.

Some trends in vocabulary research: A discussion of three papers presented at the JALT Vocabulary SIG

Kristopher Kyle – The Japanese context is a particularly rich area for a wide range of vocabulary research.

The impact of learner-related variables on second language incidental vocabulary acquisition through listening

Sarvenaz Hatami – Little is known about the complex process of L2 incidental vocabulary acquisition from listening and the factors that contribute to its success.

Modeling lexical and phraseological sophistication in oral proficiency interviews: A conceptual replication

Masaki Eguchi – Modeling Lexical and Phraseological Sophistication in Oral Proficiency Interviews: A Conceptual Replication.

Selected Linguistics Articles

EFL learners’ peer negotiations and attitudes in mobile-assisted collaborative writing

EFL learners’ peer negotiations and attitudes in mobile-assisted collaborative writing

Shiou-Wen Yeh, Cheng-Ting Chen - Based on the advantages of collaborative writing and the advanced development of mobile technology, this study investigated the communication process and attitudes of a group of college students toward collaborative writing using a Google Docs…
Exploring the Effectiveness of Deliberate Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Exploring the Effectiveness of Deliberate Computer-Assisted Language Learning

Andrew Obermeier - This article presents a work-in-progress focused on developing an experiment to investigate the effectiveness of different types of deliberate paired-associate computer-assisted language learning (CALL).
E-pals to motivate students: How a fully integrated email exchange can help motivate low-level students

E-pals to motivate students: How a fully integrated email exchange can help motivate low-level students

Marie-Nancy Bourques - This article describes how an email exchange (epal) can motivate low-level college students.
Multimodal literacy practice and identity in standard English learning: A case study in Taiwan

Multimodal literacy practice and identity in standard English learning: A case study in Taiwan

Hsiao-Ping Wu - The purpose of this qualitative case study is to understand the impact of four high school students' multimodal literacy practices in blogging and instant messaging (IM) on academic writing and how they construct their identities in terms…
Chronicling Indonesian EFL students’ engagement in podcast-based speaking in online learning milieu: A self-determination theory perspective

Chronicling Indonesian EFL students’ engagement in podcast-based speaking in online learning milieu: A self-determination theory perspective

Khusnul Khotimah , Bambang Yudi Cahyono, Deisyi Anna Batunan - The abrupt shift of teaching and learning to the online mode due to the covid-19 outbreak has inevitably called for technology integration to better engage students in online instruction.
Do you know who we are? Undergraduate students’ access to technology: A survey report

Do you know who we are? Undergraduate students’ access to technology: A survey report

Nicolas Gromik - This report presents findings from a quantitative survey of Japanese second-year undergraduate students about their access to and ownership of technology.
A survey of online teaching by native-speaker English instructors at Japanese universities

A survey of online teaching by native-speaker English instructors at Japanese universities

John Bracher - This study investigates how native-speaker English teachers working at Japanese universities use the Internet in their classes.