Developing comprehensive vocabulary tests to examine L2 learner's depth of vocabulary knowledge and learning support system for L2 vocabulary learning.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23520694
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Foreign language education
• Research Institution: Komazawa University
• Principal Investigator: UEDA Norifumi 駒澤大学, 総合教育研究部, 准教授 (30343627)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): NAKANO Michiko 早稲田大学, 教育・総合科学学術院, 教授 (70148229) ; OWADA Kazuharu 東京音楽大学, 音楽学部, 准教授 (00288036) ; TSUTSUI Eiichiro 広島国際大学, 薬学部, 講師 (20386733) ; KONDO Yusuke 早稲田大学, グローバルエデュケーションセンター, 准教授 (80409739)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 語彙テスト / 学習支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we developed English vocabulary tests to investigate ‘depth of vocabulary knowledge’based on the information such as antonym, synonym, prototypical grammatical structures in the verbs, related words, chunks, word frequency in usage, and collocations. Through some trial phases of the vocabulary tests, we analyzed the collected data by Item Response theory and Latent Rank Theory, and we produced vocabulary tests to examine learner's ‘depth of vocabulary knowledge'. We created CGI in order to enable the test-takers to take the tests on the web. We also created feedback system to the test-takers, which can provide the test-takers with some advice to learn English vocabulary.

Free Research Field

応用言語学