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Lexical Frequency Profiles and Lexical Usage: Knowledge vs Use

Research Project

Project/Area Number 19K00852
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Review Section Basic Section 02100:Foreign language education-related
Research InstitutionPrefectural University of Hiroshima

Principal Investigator

Clingwall Dion  県立広島大学, 公私立大学の部局等(庄原キャンパス), 准教授 (80737669)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) CLENTON JONATHAN  広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(総), 准教授 (80762434)
Project Period (FY) 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥600,000)
Keywordsfluency / vocabulary / task / productive / receptive / spoken / written / speaking / monologic / dialogic / tasks / use / lexical
Outline of Research at the Start

By exploring vocabulary use we intend to highlight:
a) Relationships between lexical frequency profiles (LFP) & vocabulary use
b) How LFPs vary according to use & proficiency
c) The extent that LFPs offer insight into aspects of oral production - e.g. comprehensibility, variation, diversity, etc.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research offers useful insight for second language acquisition researchers investigating oral and written productive vocabulary, receptive vocabulary, and fluency. With this investigation, we found that certain tasks are better suited for researching specific aspects of fluency and vocabulary. We also found that results may be dependent on a speaker's level of proficiency. In support of these claims, I report significant correlations between different types of speaking tasks and i) various aspects of oral fluency, and ii) different levels of spoken academic lexical production.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

This study highlights the importance of task selection (spoken and written) when attempting to investigate and assess specific aspects of oral fluency and oral productive vocabulary.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2021 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (5 results)

All 2021 2020 2019

All Presentation (3 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (2 results)

  • [Presentation] Exploring Speaking Task Influences on Fluency and Vocabulary2021

    • Author(s)
      Dion Clingwall
    • Organizer
      Hiroshima Lexical Research Foundation
    • Related Report
      2021 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Exploring potential relationships between vocabulary knowledge and fluency measures: a task-based approach2019

    • Author(s)
      Dion Clingwall
    • Organizer
      AALA - Asian Association for Language Assessment International Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Investigating whether vocabulary knowledge profiles can predict vocabulary use2019

    • Author(s)
      Dion Clingwall
    • Organizer
      EuroSLA - European Second Language Association International Conference
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] Vocabulary and the four skills2020

    • Author(s)
      Clenton, De Jong, Clingwall, and Fraser
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9780367249977
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Vocabulary and the Four Skills: Chapter 11 - Investigating the extent to which vocabulary knowledge and skills can predict aspects of fluency for a small group of pre-intermediate Japanese L1 users of English (L2)2020

    • Author(s)
      Clenton, J., De Jong, N., Clingwall, D., & Fraser, S.
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • ISBN
      9780367249977
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2019-04-18   Modified: 2023-01-30  

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