Testing the Quality of Word Knowledge in a Second Language by Means of Word Associations: Types of Distractors and Types of Associations

By Tine Greidanus, L. Nienhuis. 2001

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Structure of the second language mental lexicon: how does it compare to native speakers' lexical organization? (2007, background): “Most recently, attempts have been made (e.g. Meara, 1978; Read, 1993; Greidanus and Nienhuis, 2001; Vermeer, 2001; Wolter, 2001) to examine quality, or “depth”, of word knowledge by employing association tests as a means of tapping L2 learners’ meaning representations.”
The assessment of deep word knowledge in young first and second language learners (2008, background): “Research on this dimension so far has involved adolescent and adult second language learners (Read, 1993; Greidanus & Nienhuis, 2001; Qian, 1999), whereas in this study we focus on primary school children at a relatively early stage of their second language learning, and their schooling generally.”
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEXICAL COMPETENCE AND LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: Variable Sensitivity (2005, background): “…Thus, a second global dimension of the lexicon that is often posited is quality—or depth—of lexical knowledge ~Dolch & Leeds, 1953, for L1 vocabulary knowledge; Greidanus & Nienhuis, 2001; Henriksen; Qian & Schedl, 2004; Read, 1993, 2000; Vermeer, 2001; Wesche & Paribakht, 1996; Wolter,…”
The Relationship between Depth of Vocabulary Knowledge and L2 Learners' Lexical Inferencing Strategy Use and Success (2004, background): “In recent years, however, there have been some attempts to develop measures to assess aspects of depth of vocabulary knowledge (Greidanus & Nienhuis, 2001; Paribakht & Wesche, 1993; Read, 1993; Wesche & Paribakht, 1996).”
Evaluation of an in-depth vocabulary knowledge measure for assessing reading performance (2004, methodology): “Should we use semantically related or semantically nonrelated words as distractors (Greidanus and Nienhuis, 2001)?”
A Rasch-based validation of the Vocabulary Size Test (2010, background): “A number of previous second language vocabulary researchers have confirmed that higher frequency words tend to be better known than lower frequency words (e.g., Greidanus and Nienhuis, 2001; Laufer and Nation, 1999).”
VOCABULARY KNOWLEDGE AND ADVANCED LISTENING COMPREHENSION IN ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE (2009, methodology): “3 ) The Word Associates Test format proposed by Read ( 1993 ), and on which the depth of vocabulary knowledge test is based, has been adopted by a number of researchers (e.g., Greidanus et al., 2004 ; Greidanus & Nienhuis, 2001 ; Schoonen & Verhallen, 1998 ).”