Gavin BROOKS    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2022/09/01
Presentation Theme	Why Do EAL Learners Struggle with Reading Comprehension: A Corpus-Based Analysis
Conference	BAAL Conference 2022
Promoters	The British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL)
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Speech (General)
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Country	United Kingdom
Venue	Queen’s University Belfast
Holding period	2022/09/01～2022/09/03
Publisher and common publisher	Gavin Brooks, Jon Clenton, Simon Fraser
Details	This study measured vocabulary (uVLT) and reading comprehension (YARC) scores of 198 learners at two international schools in Japan. VLT scores were used to determine the proportion of vocabulary expected in YARC, and regression analysis was used to investigate the impact of vocabulary knowledge on reading comprehension. Additionally, lexical analysis was conducted based on a 15-million-word corpus of representative EAL textbooks compiled by the researchers to investigate the proportion of vocabulary participants likely knew in these textbooks.