Assessing Japanese college students' vocabulary knowledge with a self-checking familiarity survey  

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Barrow, J. ; Nakanishi, Y. ; Ishino, H.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: SYSTEM: An International Journal of Educational Technology and Applied Linguistics (Full Text) vol. 27 no. 2 (Jun. 1999), page 223-247.
Topik: Lexicon; Vocabulary knowledge; Familiarity; English a a Foreign Language; Japanese learners
Fulltext: Barrow_J.pdf (211.42KB)

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Expanding one's English vocabulary knowledge is one of the fundamental goals for Japa- nese students learning English. However, due to the wide variation in the quality of English language programs and English materials used, teachers do not accurately know the size of students' basic English vocabulary knowledge upon entering college. Therefore, we aimed to determine the basic words Japanese students are not familiar with and to develop a reliable and easy-to-use vocabulary survey. Before administering the vocabulary familiarity survey to a large number of students, we administered a pilot survey to 282 students in December of 1995 in order to determine the characteristics of the vocabulary survey to be given. In the Spring of 1996, we gave a vocabulary familiarity survey to 1283 students in our college and other colleges. Furthermore, we investigated the relationship between familiarity and L2 to L1 recall in order to more precisely judge the amount students over-estimate their vocabulary knowledge when using a self-checking familiarity survey. The data we collected enabled us to roughly estimate the basic vocabulary size of the average Japanese student surveyed in our study and to provide a list of unfamiliar words to both teachers and learners.

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