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Investigating Potential Relationships between Vocabulary Knowledge and Writing

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K00834
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 InstitutionHiroshima University

Principal Investigator

Fraser Simon  広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 教授 (10403510)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) CLENTON JONATHAN  広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(総), 准教授 (80762434)
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)
TANABE JULIA  広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 助教 (90868233)
Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,420,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,020,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
KeywordsWriting / Vocabulary knowledge / Lexical diversity / Vocabulary tasks / IELTS / writing / vocabulary knowledge / lexical diversity / written proficiency / embeddedness / productive vocabulary / short-term study / intervention study / vocabulary measures
Outline of Research at the Start

The research will start with a cross-sectional study in which we take a snapshot of a participant group at a single point in their academic trajectory. This will be followed with an intervention (longitudinal) experiment evaluating the extent to which specific vocabulary impacts upon the objective and subjective scoring of participant writing tasks at two different time points in their academic trajectory. We then investigate the extent to which such relationships and their trajectories map across different vocabulary, writing, and ultimately second language learning proficiencies.

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Our research provides important insights into the impact of vocabulary knowledge on L2 writing. The study included four experiments (three cross-sectional and one longitudinal) and employed a variety of vocabulary tasks. The findings shed light on three main areas of vocabulary knowledge assessment: (1) the extent to which vocabulary knowledge scores can forecast vocabulary usage in writing tasks among participants with varying proficiency levels; (2) how these scores can differentiate participant writing scores; and (3) the relationship between vocabulary knowledge scores and written output in tracking vocabulary acquisition.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

The results of our study emphasize the dynamic relationship between vocabulary knowledge and written production. The implications of the findings, which are significant for L2 writing instruction and vocabulary knowledge assessment, provide a strong foundation for future research.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2023 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (10 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020

All Journal Article (4 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 3 results) Presentation (6 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Invited: 1 results)

  • [Journal Article] A Review of McLean’s Evidence for the Adoption of the Flemma as an Appropriate Word Counting Unit2023

    • Author(s)
      Yajie Li, Simon Fraser, Jon Clenton
    • Journal Title

      広島外国語教育研究

      Volume: 26 Issue: 26 Pages: 79-92

    • DOI

      10.15027/53521

    • ISSN
      1347-0892
    • URL

      https://hiroshima.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2026465

    • Year and Date
      2023-03-01
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Peer Commenting on Written Assignments for a Japanese University Online English Course2023

    • Author(s)
      Julia Tanabe, Walter Davies, Simon Fraser
    • Journal Title

      広島外国語教育研究

      Volume: 26 Issue: 26 Pages: 45-62

    • DOI

      10.15027/53519

    • ISSN
      1347-0892
    • URL

      https://hiroshima.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2026463

    • Year and Date
      2023-03-01
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] A Review and Evaluation of Suzuki and Kormos’ Investigation into the Link between Cognitive and Utterance Fluency: The Multidimensionality of Second Language Oral Fluency2023

    • Author(s)
      Dion Clingwall
    • Journal Title

      広島外国語教育研究

      Volume: 26 Issue: 26 Pages: 93-104

    • DOI

      10.15027/53522

    • ISSN
      1347-0892
    • URL

      https://hiroshima.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2026466

    • Year and Date
      2023-03-01
    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Evaluating Jarvis and Hashimoto’s Operationalizations of Word Types and Their Influence on Lexical Diversity Measures2022

    • Author(s)
      Yajie Li, Simon Fraser, Jon Clenton
    • Journal Title

      広島外国語教育研究

      Volume: 25 Issue: 25 Pages: 109-119

    • DOI

      10.15027/51964

    • ISSN
      1347-0892
    • URL

      https://hiroshima.repo.nii.ac.jp/records/2026451

    • Year and Date
      2022-03-01
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Can Productive Vocabulary Measures Predict L2 Written Proficiency?2023

    • Author(s)
      Yajie Li, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser, George Higginbotham
    • Organizer
      Vocab@Vic Conference, University of Victoria, Wellington, New Zealand
    • Related Report
      2023 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Using productive vocabulary knowledge and lexical diversity measures to predict different IELTS writing task scores2021

    • Author(s)
      Yajie Li, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
    • Organizer
      EuroSLA 30, University of Barcelona, Spain
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Can productive vocabulary knowledge measures predict IELTS writing proficiency?2021

    • Author(s)
      Yajie Li, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
    • Organizer
      L2 Writing Seminar, University of Murcia, Spain
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Can productive vocabulary knowledge measures predict IELTS writing proficiency?2021

    • Author(s)
      Yajie Li, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
    • Organizer
      HLRF 2021 (Hiroshima Lexical Research Forum), Hiroshima University
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Can productive vocabulary knowledge measures predict IELTS writing proficiency?2021

    • Author(s)
      Yajie Li, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
    • Organizer
      L2WR Seminar, University of Murcia, Spain
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Do vocabulary task measures predict objective or subjective writing scores?2020

    • Author(s)
      Yajie Li, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
    • Organizer
      H-VARG (Hiroshima Vocabulary Acquisition Research Group), Hiroshima University
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2025-01-30  

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