2020 H-LRF Conference
The 2020 H-LRF Conference was held online from September 5-7, 2020. Below are the presenters and presentations from this conference.
| Saturday, September 5th | Sunday, September 6th | Monday, September 7th |
|---|---|---|
| Prof Paul Nation Measuring and Understanding Native-Speaker Vocabulary Size and Growth | Prof Averil Coxhead Vocabulary in Academic and Technical Contexts: Talking About Teacher Talk | Dale Brown Incidental Vocabulary Learning in a Language Classroom |
| Hosam Elmetaher, Jon Clenton, Amanda Edmonds, Takumi Uchihara Freedom of Movement: Assessing the Multi-Faceted Construct of Productive Vocabulary Knowledge | Haidee Thomson Building Speaking Fluency Using Multi-word Expressions | David Coulson Development of Knowledge of Implicit, High-Frequency English Phrases in an Elicited Imitation Format |
| Gavin Brooks Using a VLT to Assess Young EAL Learners: Benefits Issues, and a Way Forward | Kimi Klassen Linguistic Theory of Proper Names | Philip Head Investigating the Effects of Listener Background on L2 English Speech Ratings |
| Yajie Li Do Vocabulary Task Measures Predict Objective or Subjective Writing Scores? | Caroline Handley Are Word Associations Linguistic or Grounded in Conceptual Knowledge? | Stuart Benson Technical Vocabulary in Non-University Settings: The Case of Spoken Rugby Discourse |
| Dion Clingwall Exploring Speaking Task Influences on Fluency and Vocabulary | Daniel Hougham and Jon Clenton Investigating MWS-Fluency Relationships with Lower-Level Japanese L2 Learners | Jen Jordan Lexical Phrases in a Longitudinal Learner Corpus |
| Hang Nguyen Developing a Recall Test of Academic Collocations | Myint Maw, Jon Clenton, George Higginbotham Can Lexical Diversity measures discriminate between IELTS bands? | Prof Michael Daller Vocabulary Size as a Proxy for Socio-Economic Status in Partner Selection |
| Prof Jeanine Treffers-Daller Adventures Into the Unknown: Can We Use the YARC Secondary Test of Reading Comprehension With Adult L2 Learners? | Paul Booth Lexical Development Paths in Relation to Academic Writing | |
| Dion Clingwall Investigating Whether Speaking Tasks Influence Second Language Vocabulary and Fluency |
About the conference
A detailed schedule with the start and end times for each day is available for download, here:
You can download the book of abstracts from here:
The conference took place via Zoom. If you have questions about the conference you can get in touch with us here.