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.

Measuring attrition of L2 productive vocabulary knowledge over the summer vacation

Brandon Kramer, Tohru Matsuo, Aaron C. Sponseller, Young Ae Kim, Suzuka Nishiyama, Stuart McLean – For many teachers and administrators, the degree to which attrition over summer vacation represents a threat to instructed language acquisition remains unclear.

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.

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.

On Creating a Large-scale Corpus-based Academic Multi-word Unit Resource

James Rogers – This study outlines the steps taken to create an academic multi-word unit list derived from corpus data.

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.

Vocabulary Networks Workshop 2: Activating Words in a Network

Paul Meara, Imma Miralpeix – Workshop 2 explores some larger vocabulary networks than those presented in Workshop 1 (1,000 words instead of 100), and introduces some additional ways of activating words in a network (e.

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…

Selected Linguistics Articles

Bridging out-of-school digital literacy through multimodal composition for EFL students with developing proficiency

Bridging out-of-school digital literacy through multimodal composition for EFL students with developing proficiency

Dian Marissa , Shazia Hamid - This study examined how multimodal composition afforded opportunities to develop learner agency.
Limitations of mobile phone learning

Limitations of mobile phone learning

Shudong Wang, Michael Higgins - In this article, we discuss weaknesses inherent in mobile phone learning, and factors that limit its viability.
Exploring Japanese students’ e-learning habits

Exploring Japanese students’ e-learning habits

Shudong Wang, Jun Iwata - Since 2010, both universities in which the authors teach have integrated PC-based e-learning or mobile learning programs into several English courses.
Translanguaging for and as learning with youth from refugee backgrounds

Translanguaging for and as learning with youth from refugee backgrounds

Saskia Van Viegen - Although host countries generally integrate refugees into public education, wide-spread and comprehensive understanding of teaching and learning with children and youth who have experienced forced displacement and migration remains an unmet goal within most education systems.
Integrating e-learning in all English classes: Success at the half-way point of a five-year project

Integrating e-learning in all English classes: Success at the half-way point of a five-year project

James W. Pagel, David W. Reedy - Using PowerPoint for student-created group projects can be motivating and enjoyable for both students and instructors while fostering a sense of student self-reliance and autonomy.
The influence of technology in the classroom: An analysis of an iPad and video intervention on JHS student’s confidence, anxiety, and EFL WTC

The influence of technology in the classroom: An analysis of an iPad and video intervention on JHS student’s confidence, anxiety, and EFL WTC

David Michael Ockert - This small-scale, longitudinal study tested for the influence of video recording with a camcorder, and recording and self-viewing with an iPad.
Online interaction, emotions, and EFL learners’ grit in collaborative writing

Online interaction, emotions, and EFL learners’ grit in collaborative writing

Hsien-Chin Liou, Pei-En Chiang - This case study addresses both online interaction and the EFL students’ emotions and grit in a collaborative writing project.