Year: 2017

Learner agency and its effect on spoken interaction time in the target-language

Janine Knight, Elena Barbera - This paper presents the results of how four dyads in an online task-based synchronous computer-mediated…

Preparing Japanese students’ digital literacy for study abroad: Is more training needed?

Travis J. Cote, Brett Milliner - Study abroad programs provide an excellent opportunity for students to accelerate their language learning…

Learning through watching: Streaming video in L2 English

Michelangelo Magasic - This study considers the practicality of streaming video for use in L2 language education.

The suitability of cloud-based speech recognition engines for language learning

Paul Daniels, Koji Iwago - As online automatic speech recognition (ASR) engines become more accurate and more widely implemented with…

Coverage-based Frequency Bands: A Proposal

Dale Brown - Second language vocabulary research makes much use of word frequency lists and their division into bands.

Discovering Language Properties through Corpus-Based Dictionary Data Analysis

Paul A. Lyddon - To reveal underlying patterns in real language use, linguists have increasingly come to rely on corpus…

Measuring the Vocabulary Burden of Popular English Songs

Rick Romanko - This study measured the vocabulary burden of popular English songs to determine what vocabulary is needed to…

Corpus Linguistics and Vocabulary: A Commentary on Four Studies

Laurence Anthony - Tools and methods developed in the field of corpus linguistics play an often understated but important role…

Impact of talker variability on L2 word recognition among Japanese EFL learners

Noriko Matsuda - This article is a pilot study investigating auditory word priming in 40 Japanese learners of English using…

Letter from the 2017 Vocabulary SIG Symposium Organizers

Brandon Kramer, Stuart McLean - Letter from the 2017 Vocabulary SIG Symposium Organizers.

L2 Lexical Attrition and Vocabulary Re-learning in Three L1 English L2 Japanese Children

Jenifer Larson-Hall - In this paper I review the evidence for the role of age in affecting second language attrition,…

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.

Using Cognitive Linguistic Principles to Encourage Production of Metaphorical Vocabulary in Writing

Phil Bennett - Learners in academic English environments face considerable demands on their lexical knowledge.

Vocabulary Instruction and Learning: A Commentary on Four Studies

David Beglar - Four papers were presented by Jenifer Larson-Hall, Noriko Matsuda, Yu Kanazawa, and Phil Bennett.

Initial Evaluation of AWSuM: A Pilot Study

Atsushi Mizumoto - This article reports on a pilot study to evaluate usability, effectiveness, and impact of Academic Word Suggestion…

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…

The Impact of Semantic Clustering on the Learning of Abstract Words

Tomoko Ishii - It has been repeatedly argued among vocabulary researchers that semantically related words should not be taught simultaneously…

Responding to Research Challenges Related to Studying L2 Collocational Use in Professional Academic Discourse

Birgit Henriksen, Pete Westbrook - This study describes the English collocational use of non-native university teachers from two different disciplines…

The Use of Psycholinguistic Formulaic Language in the Speech of Higher Level Japanese Speakers of English

Stephen F. Cutler - A recent study by Cordier (2013) suggests that psycholinguistic formulaic sequences (multiword units that present a…

Profiling lexical diversity in college-level writing

Melanie C. González - The present paper reports on a study that examined the contribution of lexical frequency to lexical…