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A usage-based approach to understanding L2 learners' knowledge of English affixes

Research Project

Project/Area Number 20K00898
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 InstitutionTokyo University of Science

Principal Investigator

スチュワート ジェフリー  東京理科大学, 教養教育研究院神楽坂キャンパス教養部, 准教授 (40536306)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) Mclean Stuart  桃山学院大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (10624794)
ステクル ティモシー  新潟県立大学, 国際地域学部, 教授 (40601711)
Brown Dale  金沢大学, 外国語教育系, 准教授 (50781168)
ベネット フィリップ  新潟県立大学, 国際地域学部, 准教授 (70601714)
バティ アーロン  慶應義塾大学, 看護医療学部(藤沢), 教授 (80406686)
Project Period (FY) 2020-04-01 – 2025-03-31
Project Status Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥520,000 (Direct Cost: ¥400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥120,000)
Keywordsvocabulary acquisition / derivations / Vocabulary / Derivations / Affixes / vocabulary / vocabulary testing / applied lingustics / morphology / affixes / word families / Vocabulary acquisition / Language testing
Outline of Research at the Start

Frequency-based wordlists for L2 vocabulary instruction are typically based on “headwords” in lieu of separate entries for inflections and derivations of these words. This project will test how far usage-based metrics of affix difficulty predict the difficulty of derivations for Japanese learners of English. The project will involve the creation of an explanatory Multi-faceted Rasch model of the likelihood a learner will know a derivational form given (a) their total vocabulary mastery, (b) the difficulty of the headword and (c) the difficulty of the affix(es) in the derivation.

Outline of Annual Research Achievements

Data collection has progressed since the last report. To date we have collected data from 429 students, including 120 who have taken the entire test of 1300 words. The remaining students have taken smaller sections of the test, which has added 24-80 additional responses per test item.
Over the first semester of 2024 approximately 40 more students will complete the entire test. Data collection will close in July 2024, at which point we will begin marking the test data and preparing it for analysis.

Current Status of Research Progress
Current Status of Research Progress

2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.

Reason

The extensions we have been granted have allowed us to collect a sufficient amount of data, and we will still have time left over to complete the analysis and begin writing up the results for submission to a journal.

Strategy for Future Research Activity

Over the summer of 2024, two human raters will score the data in order to ensure inter-rater reliability. Over the fall we will conduct an analysis of the data using the Rasch Measurement program FACETS. Once this is completed and we have answered our initial research question and written up the results, we may conduct additional analyses using a generalized linear model and adding additional variables to analysis, such as measures of lexical diversity for each derivation analyzed.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2023 Research-status Report
  • 2022 Research-status Report
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (20 results)

All 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 Other

All Journal Article (14 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Peer Reviewed: 14 results,  Open Access: 3 results) Presentation (4 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 3 results,  Invited: 1 results) Remarks (2 results)

  • [Journal Article] The Development and Initial Validation of O-WSVLT, a Meaning-Recall Online L2 Spanish Vocabulary Levels Test2024

    • Author(s)
      Robles-Garcia Pablo, McLean Stuart, Stewart Jeffrey, Shin Ji-young, Sanchez-Gutierrez Claudia Helena
    • Journal Title

      Language Assessment Quarterly

      Volume: 21 Issue: 2 Pages: 181-205

    • DOI

      10.1080/15434303.2024.2311724

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] ‘The wisdom of crowds’: When teacher judgments outperform word-frequency as a predictor of students’ vocabulary knowledge2023

    • Author(s)
      Robles-Garcia Pablo, Stewart Jeffrey, Nicklin Christopher, Vitta Joseph P., McLean Stuart, Kramer Brandon
    • Journal Title

      Language Teaching Research

      Volume: 0 Pages: 0-0

    • DOI

      10.1177/13621688231176067

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] The contribution of affixes to productive English vocabulary knowledge for Chinese, German and Spanish learners: A comparison2023

    • Author(s)
      Stewart Jeffrey, Brown Dale, Bennett Phil, Robles-Garcia Pablo, Sanchez-Gutierrez Claudia H., Marcos Miguel Nausica, Vitta Joseph P., Nicklin Christopher, Stoeckel Tim, McLean Stuart
    • Journal Title

      System

      Volume: 115 Pages: 103035-103035

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.system.2023.103035

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report 2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Establishing meaning recall and meaning recognition vocabulary knowledge as distinct psychometric constructs in relation to reading proficiency2023

    • Author(s)
      Stewart Jeffrey, Gyllstad Henrik, Nicklin Christopher, McLean Stuart
    • Journal Title

      Language Testing

      Volume: 41 Issue: 1 Pages: 89-108

    • DOI

      10.1177/02655322231162853

    • Related Report
      2023 Research-status Report 2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Quantifying proper nouns’ influence on L2 English learners’ reading fluency2023

    • Author(s)
      Christopher Nicklin, Allie Patterson, Stuart McLean
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Second Language Acquisition

      Volume: Online First Issue: 4 Pages: 1-24

    • DOI

      10.1017/s027226312200050x

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Relationship between Word Difficulty and Frequency: A Response to Hashimoto (2021)2022

    • Author(s)
      Jeffrey Stewart, Joseph P Vitta, Christopher Nicklin, Stuart McLean, Geoffrey G Pinchbeck, Brandon Kramer
    • Journal Title

      Language Assessment Quarterly

      Volume: 19 Issue: 1 Pages: 90-101

    • DOI

      10.1080/15434303.2021.1992629

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report 2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Validating word lists that represent learner knowledge in EFL contexts: The impact of the definition of word and the choice of source corpora2022

    • Author(s)
      Geoffrey G Pinchbeck, Dale Brown, Stuart Mclean, Brandon Kramer
    • Journal Title

      System

      Volume: 106 Pages: 102771-102771

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.system.2022.102771

    • Related Report
      2022 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS ABOUT WRITTEN RECEPTIVE VOCABULARY TESTING2021

    • Author(s)
      Stewart Jeffrey、Stoeckel Tim、McLean Stuart、Nation Paul、Pinchbeck Geoffrey G.
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Second Language Acquisition

      Volume: 43 Issue: 2 Pages: 462-471

    • DOI

      10.1017/s0272263121000437

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The coming paradigm shift in the use of lexical units2021

    • Author(s)
      Brown, D., Stewart, J., Stoeckel, T., & McLean, S.
    • Journal Title

      Studies in Second Language Acquisition

      Volume: 43 (5) Issue: 5 Pages: 950-953

    • DOI

      10.1017/s0272263121000668

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Correlations of Modalities of Written Vocabulary Knowledge to Listening and Reading Proficiency: A Comparison2021

    • Author(s)
      Stewart, J., McLean, S. & Batty, A.
    • Journal Title

      Vocabulary Learning and Instruction

      Volume: 10 (2) Issue: 2 Pages: 55-63

    • DOI

      10.7820/vli.v10.2.stewart

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Using confidence intervals to determine adequate item sample sizes for vocabulary tests: An essential but overlooked practice2021

    • Author(s)
      Gyllstad, H., McLean, S. & Stewart, J.
    • Journal Title

      Language Testing

      Volume: 38 (4) Issue: 4 Pages: 558-579

    • DOI

      10.1177/0265532220979562

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report 2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Lexical Mastery Thresholds and Lexical Units: A Reply to Laufer2021

    • Author(s)
      McLean, S., & Stoeckel, T.
    • Journal Title

      Reading in a Foreign Language

      Volume: 33 (2) Pages: 247-259

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] Predicting L2 reading proficiency with modalities of vocabulary knowledge A bootstrapping approach.2020

    • Author(s)
      McLean, S., Stewart, J, & Batty, A.
    • Journal Title

      Language Testing

      Volume: 0nlinefirst Issue: 3 Pages: 389-411

    • DOI

      10.1177/0265532219898380

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The Most Appropriate Lexical Unit for L2 Vocabulary Research and Pedagogy: A Brief Review of the Evidence2020

    • Author(s)
      Brown, D., Stoeckel, T., Mclean, S. & Stewart, J.
    • Journal Title

      Applied Linguistics

      Volume: NA Issue: 3 Pages: 596-602

    • DOI

      10.1093/applin/amaa061

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Initial validation of a meaning-recall online L2 Spanish Vocabulary Levels Test2022

    • Author(s)
      Robles-Garcia, P., Stewart, J., & McLean, S.
    • Organizer
      2022 Language Testing Research Colloquium
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Correlations of Modalities of Written Vocabulary Knowledge to Listening and Reading Proficiency: A Comparison2021

    • Author(s)
      Stewart, J.
    • Organizer
      2021 JALT Vocabulary SIG Symposium
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Predicting L2 reading proficiency with modalities of vocabulary knowledge: A bootstrapping approach2020

    • Author(s)
      Stewart, J.
    • Organizer
      2020 Conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL)(Conference Cancelled)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Forms of Vocabulary Knowledge and Reading Ability2020

    • Author(s)
      Stewart, J.
    • Organizer
      JALT 2020 International Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Remarks] TUS Elsevier Researcher Profile: Jeffrey Stewart

    • URL

      https://tus.elsevierpure.com/ja/persons/stewart-jeffrey

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Remarks] Keio Elsevier Researcher Profile: Aaron Batty

    • URL

      https://keio.pure.elsevier.com/en/persons/aaron-batty

    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report

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Published: 2020-04-28   Modified: 2024-12-25  

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