The Relationship Between Vocabulary Size and Lexical Automaticity

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  • 語彙サイズと語彙自動性の関係

Abstract

This study investigated the relationship between two dimensions of vocabulary knowledge, namely vocabulary size and automaticity with a newly developed test that measures vocabulary size and lexical access tme in a single administration. The test was administered to two proficiency-based groups of Japanese learners of English majoring in foreign languages (N=88). The results of the test showed that the overall means of both vocabulary size and lexical access time strongly correlated with frequency levels of the words used in the test. However, no correlation was found between vocaburaly size and lexical access time when participants' individual data were analyzed. Furthermore, there was a tendency for participants with higher proficiency in English to score higher in terms of vocabulary size, whereas such a tendency was not observed for lexical access time data, which was contradictory to the findings of earlier studies. The possible reasons for the inconsistency are discussed in the target words.

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  • CRID
    1390282680798942592
  • NII Article ID
    110009930601
  • DOI
    10.20581/arele.25.0_175
  • ISSN
    24320412
    13448560
  • Text Lang
    en
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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    Disallowed

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