A coverage-based approach to diagnosing English vocabulary targets for Japanese university students
| Project/Area Number |
18K00866
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
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| Research Institution | Kanazawa University |
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Principal Investigator |
Brown Dale 金沢大学, 外国語教育系, 准教授 (50781168)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ステクル ティモシー 新潟県立大学, 国際地域学部, 教授 (40601711)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2018-04-01 – 2021-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000)
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| Keywords | vocabulary / text coverage / vocabulary testing / vocabulary targets / new JACET8000 wordlist / word-list banding / word frequency / text profiling / high-frequency words |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This project began by dividing the New JACET8000 wordlist into 20 levels, with each level designed to be equally important. We then investigated university students’ knowledge of the easiest levels and found that it is reasonable to assume that university students have knowledge of the first 10 levels. Next, we created a test for the words in Levels 11-20. We sampled words from each level, wrote test items, trialled the items with 528 English learners, and analysed the trial data. We then revised some of the test items, conducted further trialling, and produced a final version of the test, the Coverage-Based Levels Vocabulary Test (CBLVT). Finally, we developed a website <vocablevelchecker.net> at which users can take the CBLVT, discover which vocabulary level they should study, and analyse texts in order to find words at their level.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
Utilizing a carefully constructed vocabulary test, this research gives teachers and learners a new way of deciding which words should be studied and a means of identifying those words in texts.
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Research Products
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