Shinwoong Lee

The purpose of the current study was two-fold. It was to measure the receptive and productive vocabulary size of Korean university students and to examine their English writing ability in relation to their productive vocabulary size. Ninety seven Korean EFL students at a university located in Seoul participated in the current study. Their vocabulary sizes were measured by the Receptive Vocabulary Size Test (RVST), an adapted version of Vocabulary Size Test (VST) (Nation & Beglar, 2007) and the P

The primary purpose of the current study was to investigate Korean university students’ productive collocation knowledge and examine its relationship to the students’ writing proficiency. Seventy four Korean university students, who were mostly freshmen majoring in English at a university located in Seoul, participated in the study. The productive collocation test (PCT) was administered to the students to assess the collocation knowledge and it was found that the verb-noun collocations were hard

While less research has been conducted on the relationship between L2 collocational knowledge and L2 writing proficiency, the purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship between L2 learners’ collocational knowledge and L2 writing ability. Areceptive collocation test, counterbalanced for incongruent and congruent collocations, and adjective-noun (AN) and verb-noun (VN)collocations, was developed by matchingnormalized frequencies of the collocation items from the Corpus of Contemp

The main purpose of the study is to investigate gender difference in the frequency and pattern of reading strategy use and to see if the gender difference exists, if any, across reading proficiency level. Four hundred sixty six university students who were enrolled in two Korean universities located in Seoul participated in the study. Two major instruments were utilized in the current study. First, the reading strategy survey adapted from Survey of Reading Strategies (SORS; Mokhtari & Sheorey 20

The present study aimed to compare English non-native speaker corpora vs. English native speaker corpora for the analysis of spoken and written English. Programs BNC-COCA 25000 RANGE and COCA_MWU20 ColloGram were used to analyze frequency and lexical variety of single words and multi-word units (MWUs) in each of the four corpora: Korean EFL learners’ spoken corpus and written corpus, BNC Spoken Sampler and BNC Written Sampler. The analysis of the four corpora demonstrated: First, the Korean lear

The purpose of the study is to measure the receptive English vocabulary size of Korean university students and to see if there is any difference in the size according to gender and year in college. Four hundred and sixty six students in two Korean universities participated in the study and their receptive vocabulary size was measured by an expanded and revised version of Vocabulary Levels Test (Schmitt, 2000; Schmitt et al., 2001). The results showed that the students' receptive vocabulary size

The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of an ESL teacher and her students in computer assisted classroom discussion (CACD) and how these experiences were shaped and constructed. Thirty-four ESL students from two listening/speaking classes and one writing class enrolled in the English Language Program (ELP) affiliated with a large university in the U.S. and a teacher of those three classes participated. Main data sources included interviews with every student and the teacher, ob

The primary purpose of the current study was bi-fold. It was to investigate what vocabulary size was necessary to comprehend Friends, one of the most popular American situation comedies, and to explore the number and percentage of potential words that might be incidentally learned through watching the program. The transcripts of two hundred twenty six episodes from Friends season one through ten were compiled and analyzed utilizing RANGE. It was found that the determined vocabulary sizes corresp

The purpose of this study was to explore Korean ESL learners’ experiences in computer assisted classroom discussions. Data were collected from three ESL classes offered at a large U.S. university and 16 Korean ESL learners participated. There were four major findings of this study: (a) most participants (81.3%, 13 out of 16) did not believe that they could learn anything of value by participating in CACD sessions mainly due to the lack of discipline and order that they assumed were crucial for l

The purpose of the current study was bi-fold. First it was to examine how the semantic prosody of eight lexical items that had a specific semantic prosody were presented and explained in the six English-Korean bilingual dictionaries. In addition, it was to investigate how those lexical items were used in university students’ sentence writings in relation to semantic prosody. The result showed that the semantic prosodies of the lexical items were not adequately presented in the dictionaries in ge

The current study aimed to examine the lexical demand of 70 animation movies and measure the number of word families that could be learned incidentally through watching them, utilizing a corpus-driven analysis. It was found that learners should know about 2,000 word families to have 95% text coverage and about 5,000 word families to have 98% text coverage of the running words of the 70 animation movies. The vocabulary size necessary for understanding the animation movies was lower than that of A

The purpose of the study was to examine students' beliefs about the utility of synchronous online discussion (SOD) in language learning and their participation in the SOD and how they were related by using both quantitative and qualitative research methods. Thirty-four ESL students from diverse cultural backgrounds who were enrolled in an English Language Program (ELP) at a university in the U.S. participated in the study. The results showed that the students' beliefs were significantly related

The current study aimed to investigate the influence of L1 on the processing of L2 collocations utilizing a phrase-acceptability judgement task. The task was conducted on 39 English collocations with 21 native speakers of English and 45 Korean EFL learners. Their error rates and reaction times were measured both on the congruent collocations that have L1 translation equivalents and the incongruent collocations that do not have ones. It was found that the advanced EFL learners responded significa

The current study aimed to assess the vocabulary size necessary for understanding the Harry Potter book and movie series and to measure the number of potential words that could be learned incidentally through reading the book and watching the movie series. The findings showed that 4,000 (95% text coverage) or preferably 7,000 (98% text coverage) word families are necessary to understand Harry Potter book series, and learners should know 3,000 (96% text coverage) or preferably 5,000 (98% text cov

A number of advantages of using corpora in language teaching and learning have been identified by many corpus linguists and thereby its implementation into the language classroom has been highly recommended. However, the challenges and limitations of the use of corpora have not been extensively discussed, and without critically examining the use of corpora in language pedagogy it seems premature to urge teachers to use them in their classroom. In this vein, the purpose of the current paper is to