Vocabulary Knowledge

Name: Vocabulary Knowledge | Human ratings and automated measures
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Human ratings and automated measures

Scott Jarvis Michael Daller(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen im September 2013

VIII, 220 Seiten

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Vocabulary Knowledge
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Bio data of authors
Introduction
References
Chapter 1. Defining and measuring lexical diversity
1. Introduction
2. Background and terminology
3. Identifying the construct
4. Defining the construct
5. Operationalizing the construct and calibrating the measures
6. Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
Appendix A
Appendix B
Chapter 2. From intrinsic to extrinsic issues of lexical diversity assessment
Introduction
Intrinsic issues of lexical diversity assessment
Extrinsic issues of lexical diversity assessment
Developments in addressing intrinsic issues of lexical diversity assessment The Early Days
Unanswered questions
MTLD
Validity
Convergent validity
Divergent validity
Internal validity
Incremental validity
Summary
Addressing extrinsic issues of lexical diversity assessment
Design
Lexical diversity approaches
Material
Procedure
Correlation analysis
Analysis of variance and covariance for nine groupings
Analysis of variance and covariance for three groupings
Analysis of variance and covariance for two groupings
Three groups of ninth graders
Three groups of finns by grade
Summary
Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 3. Measuring lexical diversity among L2 learners of French
Introduction
2. Method
3. Results
3.1 The effect of lemmatization
3.2 Predictive validity
3.3 Internal validity: Dependence on text length
3.4 Convergent, divergent and incremental validity
4. Discussion and conclusion
References
Chapter 4. Validating lexical measures using human scores of lexical proficiency
Introduction
Validity
Validity studies of automated lexical indices
Methods
Corpus collection
Survey instrument
Human ratings
Variable selection
Statistical analysis
Results
Pearson correlations
Semantic co-referentiality
Collocations scores
Sense relation scores
Sense frequency scores
Frequency scores
Lexical diversity scores
Multiple regression analysis
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
References
Appendix
Holistic rating form
Chapter 5. Computer simulations of MRC Psycholinguistic Database word properties
Introduction
Word concreteness
Word familiarity
Word imageability
Method and hypotheses
Corpus
Lexical variables
Results
Pearson correlations training set
Multiple regression training set
Word concreteness
Word familiarity
Word imageability
Discussion
Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
Chapter 6. Modelling L2 vocabulary learning
Modelling L2 vocabulary learning
Background
Model assumptions
A Model of vocabulary acquisition
Modelling text production
Testing the model on ESL texts
Procedure
Results and consequences
Discussion
Conclusion
Author note
Appendix A
References
Chapter 7. Vocabulary acquisition and the learning curve
1. Introduction
2. Language learning curves
2.1 An overview of different learning curves
2.2 Learning curves and the Power Law
3. Lexical richness and its measurement
4. Hypotheses
5. Methodology
5.1 Participants
5. 2 Measures and procedure
6. Results
6.1 Text length
6.2 Measures of lexical richness
6.3 Ratings by teachers based on IELTS band descriptors
6.4 Linear fit lines and Loess curves
6.5 Fit lines
6.6 The latent growth curve
7. Conclusions
References
Index

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