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Vocabulary Learning and Testing Colloquium, 2015

Presented by JALT Vocabulary SIG, and TUJ

Date: September 13th, 2015
Location: Temple University, Japan, Osaka. 
http://www.tuj.ac.jp/tesol/maps/osaka.html

Entry Fees and Registration Form

Schedule 

09:15 ~ Registration

10:00 ~ Session 1:
10:00 – 10:25 Brandon Kramer, Momoyama Gakuin University 
Differences in knowledge of aural and written receptive vocabulary forms among Japanese learners
10:30 – 10:55 Atsushi Mizumoto, Kansai University
Developing and evaluating a computerized adaptive version of Word Part Levels Test
11:00 – 11:25 Stuart McLean, Kansai University 
An investigation of the appropriateness of using the word family unit with Japanese university students: Implications for teaching and testing

****Break 11:25 – 11:40**** 

11:40 – 12:05 Rob Waring, Notre Dame Seishin University
Time for state models of vocabulary acquisition?
12:10 – 12:35  Tohru Matsuo, Kinki University 
Rasch-based validation of WAT: Does the format matter?
12:40 – 13:10 Panel

****Lunch 13:10 – 14:00****


14:00 ~ Session 2:

14:00 – 14:25 James Rogers, Kansai Gaikokugo University
How to help ESL students achieve collocational fluency
14:30 – 14:55 Dale Brown, Osaka University, Cardiff University
Determinants of cue difficulty in a test of productive knowledge of collocations
15:00 – 15:25 Tomoko Ishii, Meiji Gakuin University
Visual features in semantic clustering issue

****Break 15:25 – 15:40****

15:40 – 16:05 David Coulson & Ben Thanyawatpokin, Ritsumeikan University 

Changes in lexical skill through large input from hand-held video games
16:10 – 16:35 David Beglar, Temple University, Japan
Teaching and learning foreign language vocabulary using insights from educational psychology
16:40 – 17:10 Panel

****Dinner: 18:00**** 

We will eat a nearby Izakaiya which is 6 minutes from Osaka Station
To reserve a place at the Izakiaya please use the Registration Form
 (contact: Stuart McLean stuart93 [at] me.com)
The cost of the dinner (all you can drink and course) is ¥4,000.

Colloquium Committee
Colloquium Coordinator: Stuart McLean
Treasurer: 
Phil Bennett

  
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