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The Effectiveness of Contextualized and Decontextualized Computer Assisted Vocabulary Study

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16K16871
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Foreign language education
Research InstitutionSaitama University

Principal Investigator

Hughes Leander  埼玉大学, 教育機構, 准教授 (80513861)

Project Period (FY) 2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
KeywordsCALL / vocabulary / context / Vocabulary / vocabulary learning / contextualized / decontextualized
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research set out to develop and test a computer assisted language learning (CALL) application for teaching English vocabulary to students of science offering both decontextualized and contextualized approaches to vocabulary learning and to test and compare the effectiveness of those approaches. It was hypothesized that studying vocabulary within a larger context leads to more effective acquisition than decontextualized study by increasing the amount of evaluation involved in the task and thereby promoting deeper processing of those vocabulary. Results support both the overall effectiveness of the system developed and the hypothesis that contextualization improves vocabulary acquisition.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

CALLアプリケーションは、特に語彙を教えることに於いて、言語教育に大いに役立つ。この研究は、CALLアプリケーション開発の改善に貢献し、語彙学習の様々な方法の有効性を比較することにより、現在の語彙習得理論のサポートを見つけるのに役立った。また、この研究を通じて、SciVoと呼ばれるCALLアプリケーションが開発され、理系学生に科学的な語彙を教えるのに効果的であることが分かった。

Report

(5 results)
  • 2019 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (6 results)

All 2020 2019 Other

All Journal Article (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Remarks (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Contextualized versus decontextualized vocabulary learning as a pre-reading task2020

    • Author(s)
      Hughes, L. S.
    • Journal Title

      KOTESOL Proceedings 2019

      Volume: 1 Pages: 11-22

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] New insights into vocabulary learning2020

    • Author(s)
      Hughes, L. S.
    • Organizer
      2019 Tokyo ELT Expo and Book Fair in Association with JALT, Tokyo
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Contextualized versus decontextualized vocabulary learning2019

    • Author(s)
      Hughes, L. S.
    • Organizer
      2019 KOTESOL International Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] SciVo Scientific Vocabulary Learning System

    • URL

      https://su-apps.org/SciVo

    • Related Report
      2019 Annual Research Report
  • [Remarks] SciVo

    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] SciVo (The application I made for this research)

    • URL

      https://su-apps.org/SciVo/index.php

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report 2016 Research-status Report

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Published: 2016-04-21   Modified: 2021-02-19  

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