Defining and measuring the vocabulary gap in school-age speakers of English

定义和测量学龄英语使用者的词汇差距

• 批准号: 2262737
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Swansea University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2262737
• 关键词: Defining; measuring; vocabulary; gap; age

The project will adapt Swansea's vocabulary size tests to measure the vocabulary size of young learners in Grange Junior School. It will measure the variation in scores which underlies variation in educational performance, and identify lexical items that distinguish high performing learners from low performing learners. It will use OUP's Learner Corpus, and changes in lexical sophistication, to examine whether lexical knowledge has diminished over the last 20 years. If the number and range of words used by children, especially infrequent words, is diminishing over time then this will support the hypothesis that overall vocabulary knowledge is also diminishing.

该项目将适应斯旺西的词汇量测试，以衡量在格兰奇初中的年轻学习者的词汇量。它将测量分数的变化，这是教育表现的变化的基础，并确定词汇项目，区分高绩效学习者和低绩效学习者。它将使用牛津大学的学习者语料库，以及词汇复杂度的变化，来检查词汇知识是否在过去20年中减少了。如果孩子们使用的单词的数量和范围，特别是不常用的单词，随着时间的推移而减少，那么这将支持整体词汇知识也在减少的假设。