The Development of an Online Self-Study Vocabulary Learning Program to Promote Network Building of L2 Lexical Knowledge

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370634
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Kumamoto University
• Principal Investigator: Orita Mitsuru 熊本大学, 大学教育機能開発総合研究センター, 教授 (60270386)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): AIZAWA Kazumi 東京電機大学, 工学部, 教授 (00222448) ; KAMIMOTO Tadamitsu 熊本学園大学, 外国語学部, 教授 (20152861) ; YOSHII Makoto 熊本県立大学, 文学部, 教授 (70240231) ; LAVIN R・S 熊本県立大学, 文学部, 教授 (70347699) ; MURASATO Yasuaki 熊本大学, 教育学部, 講師 (90229980) ; KOBAYASHI Kei 統計数理研究所, 数理・推論研究系基礎数理グループ, 助教 (90465922)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 語彙獲得 / 心内（心的）辞書 / ネットワーク構造 / コア語 / クラスター語 / 変容 / オンライン英単語学習プログラム / 仕分け課題

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project we developed the Word Cluster Master Program (WCMP), an online self-study English vocabulary learning program to deepen the L2 lexical knowledge of Japanese EFL learners at college level and promote network building in their mental lexicons. The program contains 12 units, each of them with four to five “study clusters.” A study cluster is composed of a core word (basic English verb) and five cluster words, verbs semantically related to the core. The menu for learning starts with Presentation introducing a “study cluster”, followed by Self-Diagnosis, Learning, and then Reinforcement. Students work with WCMP on PCs inside and outside the English classroom. It was confirmed that the self-study vocabulary learning program was effective in promoting the deepening and restructuring of the target lexical knowledge.

Free Research Field

人文学