2023 Fiscal Year Annual Research Report
Investigating Potential Relationships between Vocabulary Knowledge and Writing
| Project/Area Number |
20K00834
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| Research Institution | Hiroshima University |
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Principal Investigator |
Fraser Simon 広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 教授 (10403510)
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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)
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)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | writing / vocabulary knowledge / lexical diversity / written proficiency / embeddedness / IELTS |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
In the final year of the project, our focus was on writing up the findings for publication in top international journals, as well as preparing to present at a major international conference. Based on valuable feedback from 'Bilingualism: Language and Cognition' reviewers and other experts in the field, we have modified and refined our paper titled “Predicting Written Lexical Diversity with Productive Vocabulary Measures: Investigating the role of embeddedness in L2 writing”. The paper is now under preparation for submission to the journal 'System'.
We presented the main findings of the paper at the Vocab@Vic Conference in Wellington, New Zealand, in a well-received presentation titled “Can Productive Measures Predict L2 Written Proficiency?”. In the presentation, we reported the extent to which embedded vocabulary knowledge measures relate to assessed levels of writing. A total of 151 undergraduates (L1 Japanese and L1 Chinese) participated in the study. Three vocabulary knowledge measures evaluated participant vocabulary knowledge, along with lexical diversity measures and human judgement, to assess the writing. We used flemma counts for all measures. An important finding of this paper was that although all vocabulary knowledge indicators could predict written proficiency, the more embedded they were, the greater the accuracy of the prediction.
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