| Project/Area Number |
24720278
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Research Field |
Foreign language education
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| Research Institution | Kyushu Sangyo University |
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Principal Investigator |
JEFFREY Stewart 九州産業大学, 語学教育研究センター, 常勤講師 (40536306)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2013)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
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| Keywords | vocabulary acquisition / language testing / 語彙習得 / 第二言語習得論理 |
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| Research Abstract |
The current study examined the empirical nature of theorized conceptions of vocabulary depth under factor analytic methods. Four constructs of L2 vocabulary knowledge were examined: Receptive vocabulary knowledge, productive vocabulary knowledge, receptive word associations and productive word associations as scored using a norming group of native-speaker responses. Although an EFA indicated both 3 and 4 factor solutions had good fit to the data (RMSEA=0.19, 0.14), a 4-factor CFA (RMSEA=0.02) showed very high factor correlations between the constructs of receptive and productive vocabulary knowledge (0.85). The combined two factors had a reasonably high correlation to receptive word associations (0.63), but a very low correlation to productive word associations.
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