Gavin BROOKS    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2019/09/02
Presentation Theme	Creating an EAL Word List: Bridging the Gaps in EAL Learners’ Vocabulary Knowledge
Conference	Capturing and Quantifying Individual Differences in Bilingualism
Promoters	Language Acquisition, Variation and Attrition Research Group
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Poster
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Country	Norway
Venue	University of Tromso the Arctic University of Norway
Holding period	2019/09/02～2019/09/03
Publisher and common publisher	Gavin Brooks,Jon Clenton
Details	The opening portion of the presentation describes an initial investigation that assessed learners on four measures: vocabulary knowledge (Updated Vocabulary Levels Test (uVLT); Webb et al., 2017), word decoding ability (Single Word Reading Test (SWRT); Snowling et al., 2009), reading comprehension (York Assessment of Reading Comprehension (YARC); Snowling et al., 2009), and general language proficiency (C-test; Eckes & Grotjahn, 2006; Trakulphadetkrai et al., 2017). This analysis showed that across all three groups, vocabulary was the only statistically significant predictor of academic achievement. The next stage outlines the steps currently being taken to create an EAL-specific corpus and EAL word list. This includes an explanation of text selection and an overview of procedures for analyzing and identifying high-frequency words in texts (based on Coxhead, 2000 and Greene, 2008).