2021 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Acquisition and decay: The long-term impact of study abroad on receptive vocabulary knowledge and lexical diversity
| Project/Area Number |
20K00763
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| Research Institution | Doshisha University |
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Principal Investigator |
NEFF Peter 同志社大学, グローバル・コミュニケーション学部, 教授 (70411072)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
ブルックス ギャビン 関西学院大学, 総合政策学部, 講師 (10610818)
CLENTON JONATHAN 広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(総), 准教授 (80762434)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | receptive vocabulary / lexical diversity / study abroad |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
The 2021 academic year productive, both in terms of progress in this research project as well as for research achievements. Data collection instruments have been decided after consultation with scholars in the field of vocabulary acquisition. Also, the first stage of data collection has commenced among participants at both the PI's and CI's universities.The PI published an article in a international peer-reviewed journal and both CIs have co-authored a publication in an international journal about vocabulary and reading comprehension.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
After more than a year of delays due to the impact of COVID-19 and the cancellation or shortening of university study abroad programs (which negatively impacted our ability to collect data as planned), the project is back on the planned timetable with the resumption of study abroad programs.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Our plans for year 3 include: 1) continue data collection for the first cohort of long-term study-abroad participants, including vocabulary knowledge and degree of lexical diversity; 2) collect similar pre- and post-study abroad data for a cohort of short-term study abroad participants that will be used to compare to the long-term participant data; and 3) write a paper of the short-term results for submission to an international journal.
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| Causes of Carryover |
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 epidemic, the researchers have been unable to attend and present at overseas conferences as planned. Also, expenses incurred by data collection have been impacted by the cancellation of planned study abroad programs. However, we anticipate resumption of data collection and their related expenses as well as those for attendance at international conferences in the 2022 fiscal year.
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