Vocabulary Size as a Predictor of Willingness to Communicate Inside the Classroom

2021 ◽  
pp. 235-259
Author(s):  
Meltem Şen ◽  
Huseyin Oz
Keyword(s):  
Willingness To Communicate ◽  
Vocabulary Size

Stress assignment in bilingual adults reading Italian as a second language: The effect of vocabulary size

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Burani ◽  
S. Primativo ◽  
L. S. Arduino ◽  
S. O'Brien ◽  
D. Paizi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Stress Assignment

Growing a SUPER BABY: An Investigation of Factors That Influence Toddlers Vocabulary Size

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jillian McLellan ◽  
Casey A. Carroll ◽  
Brooke Soden Hensler ◽  
Peg Hull Smith ◽  
Wendelyn Shore
Keyword(s):  
Vocabulary Size

A Multivariate Approach to Lexical Diversity in Constrained Language

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-194
Author(s):  
Marta Kajzer-Wietrzny ◽  
Ilmari Ivaska
Keyword(s):  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Multivariate Approach ◽  
Mediated Communication ◽  
Vocabulary Size ◽  
Lexical Diversity ◽  
Linear Mixed Effects ◽  
Word Repetition

Empirical Translation Studies have recently extended the scope of research to other forms of constrained and mediated communication, including bilingual communication, editing, and intralingual translation. Despite the diversity of factors accounted for so far, this new strand of research is yet to take the leap into intermodal comparisons. In this paper we look at Lexical Diversity (LD), which under different guises, has been studied both within Translation Studies (TS) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). LD refers to the rate of word repetition, and vocabulary size and depth, and previous research indicates that translated and non-native language tends to be less lexically diverse. There is, however, no study that would investigate both varieties within a unified methodological framework. The study reported here looks at LD in spoken and written modes of constrained and non-constrained language. In a two-step analysis involving Exploratory Factor Analysis and linear mixed-effects regression models we find interpretations to be least lexically diverse and written non-constrained texts to be most diverse. Speeches delivered impromptu are less diverse than those read out loud and the non-constrained texts are more sensitive to such delivery-related differences than the constrained ones.

The idiodynamic method: willingness to communicate and anxiety processes interacting in real time

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter D. MacIntyre ◽  
Tammy Gregersen
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Research Participant ◽  
Willingness To Communicate ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Cognitive States ◽  
Communication Anxiety ◽  
Observer Ratings ◽  
Teacher Empathy

Abstract The idiodynamic method is a relatively new mixed-method approach to studying in real time the complex dynamics of integrated affective and cognitive states that interact continuously with human communication. The method requires video recording a sample of communication from a research participant and then using specialized software to play the video back while collecting contemporaneous self-reported ratings (approximately one per second) on one or more focal variables of interest to the researcher, such as willingness to communicate (WTC) or communication anxiety (CA). After the participant rates the communication sample, a continuous graph of changes in the focal variable is printed. The final step is to interview the speaker to gather an explanation for changes in the ratings, for example at peaks or valleys in the graph. The method can also collect observer ratings that can then be compared with the speaker’s self-ratings. To date, studies have been conducted examining WTC, CA, motivation, perceived competence, teacher self-efficacy, teacher empathy, and strategy use, among other topics. The strengths and limitations of the method will be discussed and a specific example of its use in measuring WTC and CA will be provided.

Vocabulary size and depth as predictors of second language speaking ability

System ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 102521
Author(s):  
Mostafa Janebi Enayat ◽  
Ali Derakhshan
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Vocabulary Size
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