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Recommendations for Classroom-based TESOL Research: L2 Instructed Vocabulary Acquisition as an Exemplar #1034

Sat, Feb 27, 16:30-17:30 JST | Main Stage
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Second language acquisition research (SLA) is in the midst of a methodological reform, particularly within its quantitative domain. This reform has produced a body of work, comprising systematic reviews and meta-analyses, and has resulted in recommendations relating to the practices of SLA researchers. In the spirit of the methodological reform, during this presentation we will discuss research pertaining to an important subfield of SLA, second language instructed vocabulary acquisition (L2 IVA) research, which concerns how target lexical items are learned, specifically in the classroom context, and also the factors influencing the process. The practices of L2 IVA researchers were assessed via the analysis of almost 100 studies published in six journals since the beginning of the 21st century. The results indicated that L2 IVA research will benefit from a more robust approach to sample size planning, and a set of recommendations for future research will be laid out.

Christopher Nicklin

Christopher Nicklin

Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan
Christopher Nicklin is PhD candidate on the doctoral program at Temple University in Japan and has been teaching English at Japanese universities for seven years. His research interests are mainly psycholinguistics, vocabulary acquisition, and research methodology, particularly statistical analysis using the R programming language. He has recently published in the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics and the Modern Language Journal. He can be contacted at christopher.nicklin79@gmail.com
Joseph P Vitta

Joseph P Vitta

Rikkyo University
Joseph P. Vitta has been involved in Korea TESOL since 2011. He holds a Doctorate in Education from Queen’s University Belfast and has over 16 years’ of ELT and L2 research experience. He occupies the researcher-practitioner space where his academic work seeks to improve practices in the classroom. Dr. Vitta’s publications have appeared in well-known journals such as Language Teaching Research, RELC Journal, the Modern Language Journal, and the Journal of Asia TEFL. He welcomes interested parties to contact him at vittajp@gmail.com