Gavin BROOKS    Department   Kyoto University of Foreign Studies  Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies    Position   Associate Professor
Date	2019/06/23
Presentation Theme	The Relationship Between L2 Learners' Vocabulary Knowledge and the Lexical Diversity of Their Writing
Conference	The 12th International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB12)
Promoters	The International Symposium on Bilingualism (ISB)
Conference Type	International
Presentation Type	Poster
Contribution Type	Collaborative
Country	Canada
Venue	University of Alberta
Holding period	2019/06/23～2019/06/28
Publisher and common publisher	Shizuka Brooks,Gavin Brooks
Details	Building on previous research, this study seeks to clarify the extent to which lexical richness is a product of learners' linguistic ability, in contrast to writing ability. To this end, researchers investigated the relationship between first-year students' (N=62) L2 vocabulary size (measured by McLean & Kramer (2015) New Vocabulary Levels Test (nVLT)) and the lexical diversity of academic papers in both L1 and L2. Lexical diversity was measured using both type/token ratio (TTR; Laufer & Nation, 1995) and Guiraud Index (GI; Milton, 2009). These results were compared with students' L2 writing lexical diversity.