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Exploring the Relationship between Productive Vocabulary Knowledge and Second Language Oral Ability
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Uchihara, Takumi; Saito, Kazuya – Language Learning Journal, 2019
The current study investigated the extent to which L2 learners' productive vocabulary knowledge could predict multiple dimensions of spontaneous speech production. A total of 39 English as a foreign language (EFL) participants with varying L2 proficiency levels first completed a productive vocabulary knowledge task (Lex30). Their spontaneous…
Descriptors: Nouns, Phrase Structure, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Making Intercultural Communicative Competence and Identity-Development Visible for Assessment Purposes in Foreign Language Education
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Houghton, Stephanie Ann – Language Learning Journal, 2013
This article reports on an action research case study conducted at a university in Japan, which explored how student identity-development can be made visible in potentially assessable ways through materials design in intercultural communicative competence (ICC)-oriented foreign language education. It suggests that identity-development can be…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Intercultural Communication, Communicative Competence (Languages)