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Brent A. Culligan – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2019
This study examines the application of an IRT analysis of words on lists including the General Service List (GSL), New General Service List (NGSL), Academic Word List (AWL), New Academic Word List (NAWL), and TOEIC Service List (TSL). By comparing line graphs, density distribution graphs, and boxplots for the average difficulty of each word list…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Computational Linguistics, Item Response Theory, Student Attitudes
Guerin, Aimee – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Student retention rates in higher education have been a focus of study for decades, yet the problem of low student retention still exists, particularly among community college students. While student retention has not been empirically investigated among community college students in language courses, the specific problem of low course-level…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Spanish, Second Language Learning