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Thi My Hang Nguyen; Peter Gu; Averil Coxhead – Language Testing, 2024
Despite extensive research on assessing collocational knowledge, valid measures of academic collocations remain elusive. With the present study, we employ an argument-based approach to validate two Academic Collocation Tests (ACTs) that assess the ability to recognize and produce academic collocations (i.e., two-word units such as "key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Entrance Examinations, English (Second Language)
John Read; Thi Ngoc Yen Dang – Language Teaching Research, 2025
In second language (L2) vocabulary studies there is continuing interest in tests of depth of vocabulary knowledge, measuring various aspects of word knowledge other than just the form--meaning link that is the focus of breadth (or size) tests. This study aimed to explore new formats that could be used as diagnostic tools for assessing depth of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English for Academic Purposes, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning
Feng Wang; Xingxing Jia; Zhong Lin – SAGE Open, 2023
The construct of reading is presented in language assessment. Previous studies have focused on reading issues encountered by English learners, most of which are manifested by certain linguistic features: lexical bundles (LBs). Addressing this, the study aims to analyze LBs in reading comprehension passages in the Chinese National Matriculation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Entrance Examinations, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests
Seyedeh Azadeh Ghiasian; Fatemeh Hemmati; Seyyed Mohammad Alavi; Afsar Rouhi – International Journal of Language Testing, 2025
A critical component of cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) is a Q-matrix that stipulates associations between items of a test and their required attributes. The present study aims to develop and empirically validate a Q-matrix for the listening comprehension section of the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). To this end, a…
Descriptors: Test Items, Listening Comprehension Tests, English (Second Language), Language Tests
Sungmook Choi – Language Learning & Technology, 2023
This study explored how visual input enhancement impacts caption-reading behaviors, the acquisition of English collocations, and the recall of onscreen captions. The participants comprised 53 Korean undergraduate students at a high-intermediate level of English proficiency. They were assigned to either a baseline or an enhancement group. The…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Captions
Kietnawin Sridhanyarat; Supong Tangkiengsirisin – LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network, 2025
The purpose of this study is two-fold: 1) to investigate the effects of Data-Driven Learning (DDL) framed within the Involvement Load Hypothesis (ILH) on Thai learners' use of academic collocations and 2) to examine how Thai learners utilized the involvement load (IL) components (need, search, and evaluation) to master academic collocations. It is…
Descriptors: Learning Analytics, Cognitive Ability, Language Tests, Phrase Structure
Nathaniel Carney – Language Teaching Research, 2024
The current study investigated 29 first-year Japanese university students' usage of an online vocabulary notebook that automatically searched eight different word and phrase lists to provide students with reference information about their self-selected vocabulary. Over the course of a 14-week period, participants read English books and articles…
Descriptors: Word Lists, Phrase Structure, Vocabulary Development, Second Language Learning
Mark Feng Teng – JALT CALL Journal, 2025
This study aimed to examine incidental learning of multiword expressions (MWEs) from bilingual captioned videos among language minority students. The participants consisted of 403 language minority university students enrolled in the Preparatory Year Programme (PYP) in the Southern part of China. The study evaluated participants' vocabulary…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Minorities, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Tim Stoeckel; Tomoko Ishii – Vocabulary Learning and Instruction, 2024
In an upcoming coverage-comprehension study, we plan to assess learners' meaning-recall knowledge of words as they occur in the study's reading passage. As several meaning-recall test formats exist, the purpose of this small-scale study (N = 10) was to determine which of three formats was most similar to a criterion interview regarding mean score…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Language Tests, Second Language Learning, Classification
Edith Kaan; Haoyun Dai; Xiaodong Xu – Second Language Research, 2024
According to rational adaptation approaches of language processing, readers adjust their expectations of upcoming information depending on the distributional properties of the preceding language input. However, adaptation to sentence structures has not been systematically attested, especially not in second-language (L2) processing. To further our…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Sentences
Shabani, Gholamhossein; Dogolsara, Shokoufeh Abbasi – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2023
This study shed light on the effects of four modes of vocabulary instruction, i.e., extended audio glossing, lexical inferencing, lexical translation, and frequency manipulation of input on the learning of lexical collocations by Iranian intermediate EFL learners. In so doing, 80 L1 Persian EFL students were divided into four 20-participant…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Linguistic Input
Webb, Stuart; Chang, Anna C.-S. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2022
There has been little research investigating how mode of input affects incidental vocabulary learning, and no study examining how it affects the learning of multiword items. The aim of this study was to investigate incidental learning of L2 collocations in three different modes: reading, listening, and reading while listening. One hundred…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Phrase Structure, Undergraduate Students, Comparative Analysis
Mirzaei, Azizullah; Farhang, Maryam; Eslami, Zohreh – Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research, 2023
Emergentist, usage-based L2 research has witnessed that emphasizing formulaic sequences as entry points in meaning-based instructional contexts contributes to the development of linguistic comprehension and production. Related studies have thus far striven to find the most effective methods of highlighting these word strings. This study explored…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Jeng-Yih Tim Hsu; Su-Han Cheng – AILA Review, 2023
The present study explores lexical collocations and their relation to speaking proficiency of Taiwanese EFL college students learning English for academic purposes (i.e., EAP). The data is obtained from 92 English majors at a national university of science and technology in southern Taiwan. The results show that: (a) direct collocation instruction…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Language Proficiency, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning
Lilong Xu; Boping Yuan – Second Language Research, 2024
This study investigates whether there are different first-language-second-language (L1-L2) dependency resolutions by focusing on less-studied crosslinguistic variances in L2 acquisition of Chinese, a null-subject language, by speakers of English, a non-null-subject language. The overt subject pronoun of a Chinese main clause has free orientation…
Descriptors: Cues, Chinese, Phrase Structure, English