Year: 2014

Take your pick: Out-of-class, blended language and Web 2.0 projects, and online

Neil Cowie, Keiko Sakui - This paper provides a synthesis of the pedagogical practices of e-learning teacher experts into a…

Online intercultural collaborations using wikis: An analysis of students’ comments and factors affective project success

Edo Forsythe - Online intercultural collaborations using wiki pages are becoming common in foreign language education.

The effects of syntactically parsed text formats on intensive reading in EFL

John C. Herbert - Separating text into meaningful language chunks, as with visual-syntactic text formatting, helps readers to process text…

EFL instructors’ perceptions of usefulness and ease of use of the LMS Manaba

Sean Toland, Jeremy White, Daniel Mills, Doris U. Bolliger - Learning Management Systems (LMSs) have become important tools in higher…

Tasks for easily modifiable virtual environments

Robert Swier - Recent studies of learner interaction in virtual worlds have tended to select basic tasks involving open-ended communication.

A case study of using Facebook in an EFL English writing class: The perspective of a writing teacher

Li-Tang Yu - The purpose of this study was to address a writing teacher's perspective about integrating Facebook, a social…

Blended instruction for EFL learners: Engagement, learning and course satisfaction

Aysel Sahin-Kizil - Offering blended courses has increasingly become common at tertiary education though it is relatively new in the…

Mind and material: The interplay between computer-related and second language factors in online communication dialogues

Pin-hsiang Natalie Wu, Michelle Kawamura - With a growing demand for learning English and a trend of utilizing computers in…

Reaction Time Methodologies and Lexical Access in Applied Linguistics

John P. Racine - Reaction Time Methodologies and Lexical Access in Applied Linguistics.

A Methodology for Identification of the Formulaic Language Most Representative of High-frequency Collocations

James Rogers, Chris Brizzard, Frank Daulton, Cosmin Florescu, Ian MacLean, Kayo Mimura, John O'Donoghue, Masaya Okamoto, Gordon Reid, Yoshiaki Shimada…

Is the Vocabulary Level of the Reading Section of the TOEFL Internet-Based Test Beyond the Lexical Level of Japanese Senior High School Students?

Masaya Kaneko - The main goal of the present study is to answer the question of whether the lexical level…

Do Japanese Students Overestimate or Underestimate Their Knowledge of English Loanwords More than Non-loanwords on Yes-No Vocabulary Tests?

Raymond Stubbe - English loanwords (LWs), gairaigo in Japanese, make up a much greater percentage of the Japanese language than…

Vocabulary Research in the Modern Language Journal: A Bibliometric Analysis

Paul M. Meara - This paper reports a bibliometric analysis of a set of 201 articles which was published in…

A Review of Four Studies on Measuring Vocabulary Knowledge

Akiyo Hirai - The purpose of this paper is to review each of the following four vocabulary studies: (1) Estimations…

Estimating Learners’ Vocabulary Size under Item Response Theory

Aaron Gibson, Jeffrey Stewart - Perhaps the most qualitatively interpretable vocabulary test score is an estimate of the total number…

Test Taking and DK Use on the Vocabulary Size Test

Dawn Lucovich - This study continued an investigation of test strategy and usage of an ''I don't know'' (DK) option…

Local Item Dependence on the Vocabulary Levels Test Revisited

Tadamitsu Kamimoto - The purpose of this study was to address the question of local item dependence (LID) on the…

Estimations of Japanese University Learners’ English Vocabulary Sizes Using the Vocabulary Size Test

Stuart McLean, Nicholas Hogg, Brandon Kramer - Measuring students' lexica is time-consuming, as one sitting of the Vocabulary Size Test…

Vocabulary in a Second Language: Selection, Acquisition, and Testing: A Commentary on Four Studies for JALT Vocabulary SIG

Batia Laufer - Four papers by Charles Browne, Rachael Ruegg & Cherie Brown, Makoto Yoshii and Junko Yamashita were presented…

Effects of Instruction on Yes-No Responses to L2 Collocations

Junko Yamashita - The lexical decision task (LDT), in which a participant makes dichotomous judgments on target letter strings, is…