Addressing the issue of assessing English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners: Developing and validating a word list and Vocabulary Levels Test for EAL learners
| Project/Area Number |
20K00793
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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 | Nagoya University of Commerce & Business (2022)
Kwansei Gakuin University (2020-2021) |
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Principal Investigator |
Brooks Gavin 名古屋商科大学, 国際学部, 講師 (10610818)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
CLENTON JONATHAN 広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(総), 准教授 (80762434)
Fraser Simon 広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 教授 (10403510)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | EAL / Vocabulary / Corpus Linguistics / Assessment / Word lists / Academic vocabulary / Corpus linguistics / Corpus |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research will start with an initial assessment of EAL learners’ vocabulary and its relationship to their academic performance.We will then work on the development of the EAL-corpus and word list. After the corpus and word list have been developed, we will validate them by using them to analyze a separate corpus of EAL texts as well as assessing EAL learners' actual knowledge of the words in the word list that we have developed. Finally, the word list and corpus will be made available for both teachers and researchers to use with their own EAL learners.
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Through this project, we collaborated with several Japanese international schools to create a comprehensive corpus and set of word lists aimed at EAL students studying in an EMI context. We are currently in the process of publishing the final word lists. These wordlists will help provide support for this group of learners as they cover between 9.5% to 22.6% of their respective subcorpora with between 481 - 845 lemmas. The extent of coverage offered by these word lists surpasses that of existing ones, indicating their potential as valuable resources for supporting EAL students in the classroom.
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
The wordlists that we have compiled with help to support EAL learners studying in the international school setting. The word lists will make it possible to evaluate materials, develop supporting materials, and assess EAL learners in this context.
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