Year: 2015

Friendship and reciprocity as motivators in CSCL

Simeon Flowers - Motivation is an important topic among language teachers in Japan.

Why tweet when you can bubble? Students’ perceptions of a voice microblog for the development of their L2 spoken production skills

Renaud Jonathan Davies - This study explores the role voice microblogging-based activities play in developing learners' spoken production skills.

Musical looping of lexical chunks: An exploratory study

Kim Rockell - This paper reports on the experimental use of a recently developed musical looping app with a class…

Designing online assignments for Japanese language teaching

Chiharu Tsurutani, Taeko Imura - An increasing number of language educators are taking a blended approach to their teaching in…

Assessment and e-learning: Current issues and future trends

Neil Cowie, Keiko Sakui - This paper describes different ways in which digital technology can be used for language learning.

Using information and communication technologies to motivate young learners to practice English as a foreign language in Cyprus

Maria Diakou - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are continuously evolving and when integrated appropriately these can facilitate foreign language…

On Using Corpus Frequency, Dispersion, and Chronological Data to Help Identify Useful Collocations

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

Replacing Translation Tests With Yes/No Tests

Raymond Stubbe - Along with personal interviews, individual word translation tests from the target language to the mother tongue are…

Low-Confidence Responses on the Vocabulary Size Test

Paul Hutchinson - McDonald and Asaba (Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2015) reported an administration of the Vocabulary Size Test that…

“I Don’t Know” Use and Guessing on the Bilingual Japanese Vocabulary Size Test: A Preliminary Report

Kurtis McDonald, Mayumi Asaba - This preliminary report outlines an investigation into ''I don't know'' use and guessing on the…

An empirical examination of the effect of guessing on vocabulary size test scores

Stuart McLean, Brandon Kramer, Jeffrey Stewart - The Vocabulary Size Test (VST) was created to provide a reliable estimate of…

Second Language Vocabulary Assessment Studies: Validity Evidence and Future Directions

Rie Koizumi - In this study, I review four papers by Stoeckel and Bennett, Shin, McDonald and Asaba, and McLean,…

An Investigation of Different Text Levels on L2 Learners’ Vocabulary Learning Rates in an Extensive Reading Program

Anna C-S. Chang - This study investigated whether different text levels would affect L2 learners' vocabulary learning rates and further…

Are Learners Aware of Effective Ways to Learn Second Language Vocabulary from Retrieval? Perceived Effects of Relative Spacing, Absolute Spacing, and Feedback Timing on Vocabulary Learning

Tatsuya Nakata - Although the effects of retrieval-based learning may be affected by factors such as relative spacing, absolute spacing,…

Mastery Sentences: A Window into the Interplay between Word Knowledge Types

Andrew Gallacher - This study investigates students' productive knowledge of high-frequency vocabulary using a word knowledge framework.

Researching Vocabulary in the EFL Context: A Commentary on Four Studies for JALT Vocabulary SIG

Stuart Webb - Four papers by Anna C-S. Chang, Yuko Hoshino, Tatsuya Nakata, and Andrew Gallacher were presented in the…

Psychometric properties of word association test with regard to adolescent EFL learners

Hye Won Shin - This study reports on the psychometric evaluation of a second language vocabulary test.

A Japanese word association database of English

George Higginbotham, Ian Munby, John P. Racine - In this paper, two word association (WA) studies are presented in support…

A Test of the New General Service List

Tim Stoeckel, Phillip Bennett - This paper introduces the New General Service List Test (NGSLT), a diagnostic instrument designed to…

What impact does a change-agent have on faculty use of technology?

Iain Stanley - This study was undertaken to examine the influence that a set of Professional Development (PD) initiatives had…