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Walking the Walk? (Mis)Alignment of EFL Teachers' Self-Reported Corpus Literacy Skills and Their Competence in Planning and Implementing Corpus-Based Language Pedagogy
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Tieu Thuy Chung; Peter Crosthwaite; Cam Thi Hong Cao; Carolina Tavares Carvalho – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2024
Data-driven learning (DDL) is an increasingly popular area of research for language teaching and is gradually being incorporated into teacher education programs globally. However, assessing teacher trainees' (self-reported) corpus literacy, and its impact on eventually (and successfully) incorporating corpora into language teaching, is an ongoing…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Computational Linguistics
What Is the Best Predictor of Word Difficulty? A Case of Data Mining Using Random Forest
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Hung Tan Ha; Duyen Thi Bich Nguyen; Tim Stoeckel – Language Testing, 2024
Word frequency has a long history of being considered the most important predictor of word difficulty and has served as a guideline for several aspects of second language vocabulary teaching, learning, and assessment. However, recent empirical research has challenged the supremacy of frequency as a predictor of word difficulty. Accordingly,…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Vocabulary Skills, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction