Japanese Vocabulary Acquisition by Learners in Three Contexts
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https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v15i1.223Keywords:
Study Abroad, Education abroad, Japanese vocabulary acquisitionAbstract
This study is an investigation of the development of vocabulary knowledge during study abroad, intensive domestic immersion, and academic year formal classroom learning.
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Wilkinson, S. (1998a). On the nature of immersion during study abroad: Some participant perspectives. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, IV(Fall), 121–138.
Wilkinson, S. (1998b). Study abroad from the participants’ perspective: A challenge to common beliefs. Foreign Language Annals, 31(1), 23–39.
Brecht, R. D., Davidson, D. E., & Ginsberg, R. B. (1995). Predictors of foreign language gain during study abroad. In B. F. Freed (Ed.), Second language acquisition in a study abroad context. (pp. 37–66). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Collentine, J. (2004). The effects of learning contexts on morphosyntactic and lexical development. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 227–248.
Collentine, J., & Freed, B. F. (2004). Learning context and its effects on second language acquisition. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 153–171.
Collins, L., Halter, R. H., Lightbown, P. M., & Spada, N. (1999). Time and the distribution of time in L2 instruction. TESOL Quarterly, 33, 655–680.
DeKeyser, R. (1986). From learning to acquisition? Foreign language development in a U. S. classroom and during a semester abroad. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Stanford University.
Dewey, D. P. (2002). The effects of study context on the acquisition of reading by students of Japanese as a second language: A comparison of study-abroad and intensive domestic immersion. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
Dewey, D. P. (2004). A comparison of reading development by learners of Japanese in intensive domestic immersion and study abroad contexts. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 303–327.
Frank, V. (1997, March 22). Potential negative effects of homestay. Paper presented at the Middle Atlantic Conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Albany, NY.
Freed, B. (1993). Assessing the Linguistic Impact of Study Abroad: What We Currently Know — What We Need to Learn. Journal of Asian Pacifi c Communication, 4(4), 151–166.
Freed, B., So, S., & Lazar, N. A. (2003). Language learning abroad: How do gains in written fl uency compare with gains in oral fl uency in French as a second language? ADFL Bulletin, 34(3), 34–40.
Freed, B. F. (1995a). Language learning and study abroad. In B. F. Freed (Ed.), Second language acquisition in a study abroad context. (pp. 3–33). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Freed, B. F. (1995b). What makes us think that students who study abroad become fl uent? In B. F. Freed (Ed.), Second language acquisition in a study abroad context (pp. 123–148). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 1995.
Freed, B. F. (1998). An overview of issues and research in language learning in a study abroad setting. Frontiers, IV(Fall), 31–60.
Freed, B. F. (1999). Retrospective Views from the President’s Commission on Foreign Language and International Studies and Prospects for the Future. Paper presented at the Study Abroad and Language Learning, The Study of Foreign Languages in the New Century: Retrospective Views from ‘The President’s Commission on Foreign Languages and International Studies’ and Prospects for the Future Symposium, sponsored by the Stanford Language Center and the Institute for International Studies. Stanford, CA: Stanford University.
Freed, B. F., Dewey, D. P., Segalowitz, N., & Halter, R. (2004a). The Language Contact Profi le. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 349–356.
Freed, B. F., Segalowitz, N., & Dewey, D. P. (2004b). Context of learning and second language fl uency in French: Comparing regular classroom, study abroad, and intensive domestic immersion programs. Studies in Second
Language Acquisition, 26, 275–301.
Gardner, R. C., Masgoret, A.-M., & Tremblay, P. F. (1999). Home background characteristics and second language learning. The Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 18(4), 419–437.
Hatasa, Y. A. (2002). The effects of differential timing in the introduction of Japanese syllabaries on early second language development in Japanese. Modern Language Journal, 86(3), 349–367.
Lafford, B. A. (1995). Getting into, through, and out of a survival situation: A comparison of communicative strategies used by students studying Spanish-abroad and ‘at home’. In B. F. Freed (Ed.), Second language acquisition in a study abroad context (pp. 97–121). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Co.
Lapkin, S., Hart, D., & Swain, M. (1995). A Canadian interprovincial exchange: Evaluating the linguistic impact of a three-month stay in Quebec. In B. F. Freed (Ed.), Second language acquisition in a study abroad context (pp. 67–94). Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Co.
Laufer, B., & Paribakht, T. S. (1998). The relationship between passive and active vocabularies: Effects of language learning context. Language Learning, 48(3), 365–391.
Masgoret, A.-M., & Gardner, R. C. (2003). Attitudes, motivation and second language learning: A meta-analyses of studies by Gardner and his associates. Language Learning, 53, 123–163.
Matsunaga, S. (1995). The role of phonological coding in reading kanji: A research report and some pedagogical implications. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Second Language Teaching and Curriculum Center.
Meara, P. (1994). The year abroad and its effects. Language Learning Journal, 10(Sept), 32–38.
Milton, J., & Meara, P. (1995). How periods abroad affect vocabulary growth in a foreign language. Review of Applied Linguistics, 107-108, 17–34.
O’Donnell, K. (2004). Student perceptions of language learning in two contexts: At home and study abroad. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
Paribakht, T. S., & Wesche, M. (1993). The relationship between reading comprehension and second language development in a comprehension-based ESL program. TESL Canada Journal, 11(1), 9–29.
Pellegrino, V. (1997). Social and psychological factors affecting spontaneous second language use during study abroad. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Bryn Mawr College.
Pellegrino, V. (1998). Student perspectives on language learning in a study abroad context. Frontiers, Fall, 91–120. Frontiers, IV(Fall), 91–120.
Rifkin, B. (2003). Oral profi ciency learning outcomes and curricular design. Foreign Language Annals, 36(4), 582–588.
Rifkin, B. (2005). A ceiling effect in traditional classroom foreign language instruction: data from Russian. Modern Language Journal, 89(1), 3–18.
Rivers, W. P. (1998). Is being there Enough? The effects of homestay placements on language gain during study abroad. Foreign Language Annals, 31(4), 492–500.
Segalowitz, N., & Freed, B. F. (2004). Context, contact and cognition in oral fluency acquisition: Learning Spanish in at home and study abroad contexts. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 26, 173–199.
Schmitt, N. (2000). Vocabulary in language teaching. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Schmitt, N. & McCarthy, M. (1997). Vocabulary: Descrption, acquisition and pedagogy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Warnick, J. P. (1996). A phenomenology of reading performances: Reading Japanese as a foreign language. . Unpublished doctoral dissertation, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Wilkinson, S. (1996). Foreign language conversation and the study abroad transition: A case study. Dissertation Abstracts International, A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 57(1), 140–A.
Wilkinson, S. (1998a). On the nature of immersion during study abroad: Some participant perspectives. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, IV(Fall), 121–138.
Wilkinson, S. (1998b). Study abroad from the participants’ perspective: A challenge to common beliefs. Foreign Language Annals, 31(1), 23–39.
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2007-12-19
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Dewey, D. P. . (2007). Japanese Vocabulary Acquisition by Learners in Three Contexts. Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 15(1), 127–148. https://doi.org/10.36366/frontiers.v15i1.223
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