I am doing research on Word Blitz (learners are asked to write as many words in the target language [TL] as they can recall in five minutes).
I am curious about how the numbers of answers increase over time, correlate with TL level, age, gender, teaching method etc. Does doing Word Blitz stimulate speaking in class, de-motivate poor scorers, restrict or expand vocabulary used, etc.? I am also interested in such things as spelling errors and especially semantic domains. I have not found any research at all on this. Does any-one have any suggestions?
There is not much reported work in this area, so feel free to be the pioneer!
ERIC was not helpful https://eric.ed.gov/
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Rapid+Vocabulary+Recall%22
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Word+Blitz%22
Hi Kim,
I suppose that, as with all things related to vocabulary learning and teaching, a search of Paul Nation's work might be a good start - perhaps along with the work of other scholars like Paul Meara and Batia Laufer. I agree with Ian Kennedy that I am not aware of much that has been published in this area. Maybe a trawl of psycholinguistics journals might yield something?
HI kim,
To my experience try out snake game, word syllable wheel, Think-Pair and Share strategy. Additionally, I do recommend reading this book:Strategies for Recalling Knowledge: Remembering Information for Jared Meyer - 2006
Good Luck...
Have you looked at spew tests? I believe you can find a paper about them on Paul Meara's logistics website.
Kim,
I was thinking that the papers on them might have ideas in them that would be helpful in analysing the data.
Hello Kim, you might find Michael Harrington's new book on Lexical Facility of interest: "This book examines the simultaneous contribution of learner vocabulary size and speed to second language performance differences across learner levels and settings. Harrington considers vocabulary size and speed, as reflected in retrieval speed and consistency." https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Lexical_Facility.html?id=OV4ajwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y&hl=en
Below are some related research papers on assessing vocabulary recognition knowledge:
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Hope these are of interest.
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