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Exploring the Relationship between Productive Vocabulary Knowledge and Second Language Oral Ability

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K02922
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionHiroshima University

Principal Investigator

Clenton Jonathan  広島大学, 総合科学研究科, 准教授 (80762434)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) Fraser Simon  広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 教授 (10403510)
安仁屋 宗正  広島大学, 総合科学研究科, 名誉教授 (60202652)
Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2019-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2018)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥2,860,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥660,000)
Keywordsfluency / vocabulary / productive / receptive / implicational / aspects / pausing / pauses / multifaceted / lexical / frequency / profile / language / testing / oral / ability / 言語学 / 英語
Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study have potentially useful implications for second language acquisition research. We report that different tasks might be better employed for specific research purposes. In using Lex30, a simple task based on word association, the study supports suggestions that it appears more aligned to the ability to use the words (than other productive vocabulary knowledge tasks). This implication we feel is borne out by our reporting significant correlations between the vocabulary used in response to the scenario / speaking tasks (scen) and the Lex30 score. We suggest that this interpretation is important because it appears that the Lex30 task might tap the participant’s specific vocabulary knowledge. We suggest that some aspects of vocabulary might lag behind others to the extent that knowledge of form (which we believe Lex30 accesses) comes before other aspects of knowledge (e.g. semantic, and grammatical knowledge (which others suggest the PVLT measures).

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

The current study represents an important development in determining which aspects of vocabulary relate to second language fluency. Replicating and using different vocabulary tasks might support our findings
, and lead to the creation of an implicational scale of spoken vocabulary knowledge.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2018 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2019 2018 2017 2016

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 1 results) Presentation (13 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 13 results,  Invited: 9 results)

  • [Journal Article] Making sense of learner performance on tests of productive vocabulary knowledge2017

    • Author(s)
      Fitzpatrick and Clenton
    • Journal Title

      Tesol Quarterly

      Volume: 0 Issue: 4 Pages: 1-24

    • DOI

      10.1002/tesq.356

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] Bilinguals, lexical frequency profiles, and fluency development.2019

    • Author(s)
      Jon Clenton
    • Organizer
      2nd International Conference on Bilingualism, Malta, 2019, With Invitation, University of Malta
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Interpreting vocabulary knowledge task scores: implications for vocabulary assessment development2018

    • Author(s)
      Elmetaher, Hosam; Clenton, Jon,
    • Organizer
      The annual international conference of the Asian Association for Language Assessment, 2018, With Invitation, Shanghai, China
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Standards in Language Assessment: investigating lexical frequency profiles from vocabulary and speaking tasks2018

    • Author(s)
      Clenton, J., Clingwall., D, & Fraser. S.,
    • Organizer
      The annual international conference of the Asian Association for Language Assessment, 2018, With Invitation, Shanghai, China
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Investigating lexical frequency profiles from vocabulary and speaking tasks.2018

    • Author(s)
      Clenton, J., Clingwall., D., and Fraser., S,
    • Organizer
      EuroSLA, 2018, With Invitation, Munster, Germany
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Investigating the impact of vocabulary, pausing, and task type on fluency,2018

    • Author(s)
      Clingwall, D., Clenton, J., Fraser, S
    • Organizer
      American Association for Applied Linguistics 2018 Conference Chicago, Illinois. March 23 to March 25th 2018,
    • Related Report
      2018 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 3.Evaluating measures of oral proficiency and vocabulary with monologic, quasi-dialogic, and dialogic speaking tasks,2018

    • Author(s)
      Jon Clenton. , Clingwall, D., Fraser, S
    • Organizer
      Language Assessment Research, Ames, Iowa.March 21-23, 2018, With Invitation
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 4.Investigating the impact of vocabulary, pausing, and task type on fluency,2018

    • Author(s)
      Clingwall, D., Clenton, J., Fraser, S.,
    • Organizer
      American Association for Applied Linguistics 2018 Conference Chicago, Illinois. March 23 to March 25th 2018, With Invitation
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Exploring Relationships Between Second Language Oral Ability and Vocabulary Knowledge2017

    • Author(s)
      Jon Clenton, Dion Clingwall, Simon Fraser
    • Organizer
      AAAL
    • Place of Presentation
      Portland, America
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-18
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Investigating the Potential Relationships between L2 Speaking Performance and Productive Vocabulary2017

    • Author(s)
      Jon Clenton, Takumi Uchihara, Kazuya Saito
    • Organizer
      AAAL
    • Place of Presentation
      Portland, America
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-18
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 1.Investigating Relationships between Second Language Oral Ability and Vocabulary Knowledge: Impacts on Teaching and Learning2017

    • Author(s)
      Jon Clenton, Dion Clingwall, Simon Fraser
    • Organizer
      sian Association for Language Assessment, May 31, 2017, With Invitation
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] 2.Vocabulary knowledge and oral ability: exploring multiple theories and potential relationships2017

    • Author(s)
      Jon Clenton, Dion Clingwall, Simon Fraser,
    • Organizer
      Association for Language Testing and Assessment of Australia and New Zealand Monday 27 to Wednesday 29 November, 2017,, With Invitation
    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Investigating learner performance on productive vocabulary knowledge tests2016

    • Author(s)
      Jon Clenton, Tess Fitzpatrick
    • Organizer
      Vocab@Tokyo
    • Place of Presentation
      Tokyo
    • Year and Date
      2016-09-12
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Determining the extent to which L1 learner choices influence the L2: exploring semantic and syntactic choices.2016

    • Author(s)
      Jon Clenton, Paul Booth, Jo Van Herwegen
    • Organizer
      EuroSLA
    • Place of Presentation
      Finland
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-24
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2020-03-30  

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