The Effectiveness of Contextualized and Decontextualized Computer Assisted Vocabulary Study
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16K16871
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Saitama University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2016-04-01 – 2020-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2019)
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| 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)
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| Keywords | CALL / vocabulary / context / Vocabulary / vocabulary learning / contextualized / decontextualized |
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| 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.
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| 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。
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