Useful articles and links

The articles and links cited here help explain the ideas that inform the SEAlang Lab project.  Most deal with the interplay between reading, vocabulary acquisition, and language competence. 

    Citations have intentionally been limited to those available in electronic form.  Because of the alarming rate at which on-line links go dead, most of the articles listed below are linked to both their original sources, and to copies at the SEAlang Archives. 

Reading

At what rate do learners learn and retain new vocabulary from reading a graded reader?  copy as pdf  Rob Waring (Notre Dame Seishin University) and Misako Takaki (Okayama Board of Education) Reading in a Foreign Language Volume 15, Number 2, October 2003 ISSN 1539-0578
Why Extensive Reading should be an indispensable part of all language programs   copy as pdf  Rob Waring (Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama, Japan)
Second language reading and incidental vocabulary learning  copy as pdf  Waring, Rob and Nation, Paul. Angles on the English-Speaking Works, Ed Kirsten Haastrup et al. Vol. 4, 2004
Understanding unfamiliar words in a text: Do L2 learners understand how much they don't understand?  (fixed) copy as pdf  Laufer, Batia and Yano, Yasukata, Reading in a Foreign Language Volume 13, Number 2, October 2001 ISSN 1539-0578
Extensive Reading in Second Languages: A Critique of the Research  local html  Rob Waring (Notre Dame Seishin University, Okayama, Japan) October 2000.
Threshold-style processing of Chinese characters for adult second language learners.     Liu, Y., Wang, M., & Perfetti, C. A. (in press). Memory and Cognition. (See other articles on reading by Perfetti at http://www.pitt.edu/~perfetti/charles-perfetti.htm  ).

Vocabulary

Measuring readiness for simplified material: a test of the first 1,000 words of English  copy as pdf  Paul Nation (Victoria University of Wellington) Simplification: Theory and Application ed. M.L.Tickoo, RELC Anthology Series No 31, 1993, pp 193-203.
The automatic cognate form assumption: Evidence for the parasitic model of vocabulary development  copy as pdf  Christopher J. Hall IRAL 40 (2002), pp. 69-87.
Measuring Vocabulary Diversity Using Dedicated Software  copy as doc  Gerard McKee, David Malvern, Brian Richards, (The University of Reading, UK) Literary and Linguistic Computing Vol. 15, No. 3, 2000, pp. 323-337
Why & how to use frequency lists to learn words  local html  Tom Cobb
Vocabulary Size, Text Coverage and Word Lists  local html  Paul Nation and Robert Waring. In Schmitt, N. and M. McCarthy (Eds.): Vocabulary: Description, Acquisition and Pedagogy: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 6-19 Version: Sept 1997

Software Systems

Visible or Invisible Links: Does the Highlighting of Hyperlinks Affect Incidental Vocabulary Learning, Text Comprehension, and the Reading Process?  (archived pdf)   Isabelle De Ridder (University of Antwerp) Language Learning & Technology January 2002, Vol. 6, Num. 1 pp. 123-146
Expanding Academic Vocabulary With an Interactive On-Line Database   (archived pdf)   Marlise Horst (Concordia University), Tom Cobb (Universite de Quebec a Montreal), Ioana Nicolae (Concordia University). Language Learning & Technology Vol. 9, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 90-110
Integrating Corpus Consultation in Language Studies   (archived pdf)   Angela Chambers (University of Limerick), Language Learning & Technology Vol. 9, No. 2, May 2005, pp. 111-125
Browsers for Autonomous and Contextualized Language Learning: Tools and Theories  (archived pdf)   Oliver Streiter, Judith Knapp, Leonhard Voltmer, Daniel Zielinski. 3rd International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE), 27.-30.6.2005, Hsinchu, Taiwan.
Automatic question generation for vocabulary assessment  (archived pdf)   J. Brown, G. Frishkoff, and M. Eskenazi. (2005) In Proceedings of HLT/EMNLP 2005. Vancouver, B.C
Classroom success of an Intelligent Tutoring System for lexical practice and reading comprehension     (archived pdf)   Michael Heilman, Kevyn Collins-Thompson, Jamie Callan, Maxine Eskenazi (Language Technologies Institute Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.
Language Learning: Challenges for Intelligent Tutoring Systems.    (archived pdf)   Heilman, M. and Eskenazi, M. (2006) Proceedings of the Workshop of Intelligent Tutoring Systems for Ill-Defined Domains. 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems
Student, text and curriculum modeling for reader-specific document retrieval.   (archived pdf)   J. Brown and M. Eskenazi. (2005) In Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction 2005. Phoenix, AZ.

Proficiency and Assessment

Defining and measuring the construct of second/language proficiency   Jan H. Hulstijn (Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication, University of Amsterdam) Plenary address, held at the joint conference of the American Association for Applied Linguistics (AAAL) and the Association canadienne de linguistique appliqee/Canadian Association of Applied Linguistics ACLA/CAAL, Montreal, June 17/20, 2006
Watanabe, Y., & Norris, J. M. (2006).  (archived pdf)   Foreign language program evaluation: An annotated bibliography of resources for foreign language educators. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i, National Foreign Language Resource Center.
Theory and Practice in Government Language Teaching   (archived htm)   Frederick H. Jackson & Marsha A. Kaplan (Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State). See also Lessons learned from fifty years of theory and practice in government language teaching Theory and Practice in Government Language Teaching   (archived pdf)   Frederick H. Jackson & Marsha A. Kaplan (Foreign Service Institute), GURT 1999.        

Journals and Papers

Reading in a Foreign Language  A refereed journal sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC).
Language Learning & Technology  (journal) A refereed journal sponsored and funded by the University of Hawai'i National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) and the Michigan State University Center for Language Education And Research (CLEAR), and co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL).
Dialog on Language Instruction  (occasional publication of the DLIFLC) Vol 12  Vol 13  Vol 14.1  Vol 15  Vol 16  Vol 17.1 and 17.2 
Rob Waring's papers , some of which are also listed above.

Tools and Sites

www.vocaboly.com 
www.wordsandtools.com  (site appears to require IE)
Both of these sites have a variety of innovative word games.
Rob Waring's papers , some of which are also listed above.
The REAP Project : Reader-Specific Lexical Practice for Improved Reading Comprehension
The Academic Word List  (AWL) Local copies of their lists:
    awlheadwords.rtf 
    awlsublists.rtf 
    awlfrequent.rtf   
www.lextutor.ca  Tom Cobb's Compleat (sic) Lexical Tutor for data-driven language learning on the web.