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2021 年度 実施状況報告書

Addressing the issue of assessing English as an Additional Language (EAL) learners: Developing and validating a word list and Vocabulary Levels Test for EAL learners

研究課題

研究課題/領域番号 20K00793
研究機関関西学院大学

研究代表者

ブルックス ギャビン  関西学院大学, 総合政策学部, 講師 (10610818)

研究分担者 CLENTON JONATHAN  広島大学, 人間社会科学研究科(総), 准教授 (80762434)
Fraser Simon  広島大学, 外国語教育研究センター, 教授 (10403510)
研究期間 (年度) 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
キーワードEAL / Corpus linguistics / Word lists / Vocabulary / Assessment
研究実績の概要

Last year we were working to finish the corpus and develop the word list. We digitalized all the texts required for the corpus, including, scanning, OCRing and cleaning them. We also worked with our partner schools to make sure the text in the corpus were reflective of the texts being used in the classroom. We have also cleaned and processed the files following the procedure set out by previous studies (e.g. Green & Lambert, 2018; Greene & Coxhead, 2015). Cleaning and processing induced manually checking the text files for errors that may have occurred during the OCR process, removing page numbers, tagging headings, caption, figures, and tables so they are easy to identify when processing the texts. These texts were then compiled into a final database for analysis. We are now in the process of processing the files in order to identify words for inclusion in the corpus and checking the validity of the resulting wordlist. Following the methodology of previous studies, this includes lemmatizing and tagging the text files for POS using R and Spacy. We have started compiling a number of reference corpora, both of similar and different text types, to be used to validate the word list on. When this has finished, we will compare our word list to existing word lists against these reference corpora.

現在までの達成度 (区分)
現在までの達成度 (区分)

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理由

Things went more smoothly the last year as more schools started going back face-to-face. We were also able to get a lot of helpful feedback about the preliminary word lists that we have complied. Furthermore, the reception to these wordlists from other researchers has been very encouraging.

今後の研究の推進方策

We now need to check the word lists against the corpora we are creating and being to write the final papers for publication. Over the next year, we have identified three potential papers that we can write using the research we have conducted to date. The next semester will be used to write up these papers, and submit them to international journals. We will also present our research at a number of international conferences.

次年度使用額が生じた理由

Due to the difficulties presenting at International conferences caused by COVID a number of our planned conferences were done virtually, rather than face to face. As a result, the money originally planned for travel to these conferences was not used. We are hoping to be able to present at more international conferences this year as they are an important part of networking and making other researchers aware of the project, as well as getting feedback.

  • 研究成果

    (4件)

すべて 2021

すべて 学会発表 (4件) (うち国際学会 4件)

  • [学会発表] Creating an EAL Word List: Bridging the Gaps in EAL Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge2021

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Gavin Brooks, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
    • 学会等名
      Journees de la Recherche en Education (JRE) 2021
    • 国際学会
  • [学会発表] Academic vocabulary and formulaic language in the EAL context: Creating a discipline-specific EAL word list2021

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Gavin Brooks, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
    • 学会等名
      30th Conference of the European Second Language Association
    • 国際学会
  • [学会発表] The Importance of Vocabulary for English as an Additional Language Learners’ Reading Comprehension2021

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Gavin Brooks, Jon Clenton
    • 学会等名
      British Association of Applied Linguistics
    • 国際学会
  • [学会発表] Academic Vocabulary and Multiword Expressions in an EAL Context2021

    • 著者名/発表者名
      Gavin Brooks, Jon Clenton, & Simon Fraser
    • 学会等名
      Hiroshima Lexical Research Foundation
    • 国際学会

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公開日: 2022-12-28  

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