The Relationships between Lexical Sophistication and Second Language Writing and Speaking

• 영문명: The Relationships between Lexical Sophistication and Second Language Writing and Speaking
• 발행기관: 한국영어어문교육학회
• 저자명: Minkyung Kim
• 간행물 정보: 『영어어문교육』제30권 제4호, 27~48쪽, 전체 22쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2024.12.31

국문 초록

This study examines the relationship between lexical sophistication and the scores of second language (L2) persuasive writing and speaking. The dataset included 120 essays and 120 speeches produced by university-level learners of English as a foreign language. The essays were written as persuasive texts, while the speeches involved dialogues where learners were required to persuade their listeners. Lexical sophistication features were analyzed based on word frequency, psycholinguistic properties (i.e., concreteness, imageability, and age of acquisition), and word associations. Regression analyses revealed that word association scores were the strongest predictor for both L2 writing and speaking score, emphasizing the importance of the word association dimension of lexical sophistication across modalities. The model predicting L2 writing scores showed that higher-rated persuasive essays contained more low-frequency content words and words with restricted contextual usage, explaining 15.8% of the variance in writing scores. The model predicting L2 speaking scores found that higher-rated persuasive speeches included more words with restricted contextual usage, explaining 26.4% in speaking scores. Overall, these findings suggest that while word associations are broadly important, specific lexical features such as frequency and contextual restrictions play varying roles in different modalities of L2 persuasive tasks.

목차

Ⅰ. INTRODUCTION

Ⅱ. LITERATURE REVIEW

Ⅲ. METHODS

Ⅳ. RESULTS

Ⅴ. DISCUSSION

Ⅵ. CONCLUSION

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키워드

L2 writing L2 speaking lexical sophistication word frequency word association

참고문헌

• Oxford University Press
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• Visible Language
• TESOL Quarterly
• Language Learning & Technology
• Language Testing
• TESOL Quarterly
• Language Learning
• International Journal of Corpus Linguistics
• Behavior Research Methods
• Modern Language Journal
• Language Teaching
• Language Testing
• Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World
• English Teaching
• Learner Corpus Studies in Asia and the World
• Journal of Memory and Language
• Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
• The Modern Language Journal
• Psychology of Learning and Motivation
• Guilford Press
• Behavior Research Methods
• Journal of Second Language Writing
• Behavior Research Methods
• Applied linguistics
• Modern Language Journal
• Psychological Science
• Cambridge University Press