Data from: Russian’s Most Frequent Words and Vocabulary Instruction

Comer, William J.

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“…That a quarter to a third of the low-frequency words that students drew on have a close relationship with English does not suggest that they were relying too much on cognates to inflate their lexical sophistication. Comer (2021) documented that about 21% of the 5K words on Liashevskaia and Sharov's (2009) frequency list can be classified as international words. Thus, international words are a significant and unavoidable feature of Russian vocabulary.…”

Section: Qualitative Analysis Of Low-frequency Vocabularymentioning

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“…Gaining control of that range of vocabulary does present a significant learning burden, and teachers and curriculum designers should provide every affordance for learners to make both intentional and incidental vocabulary learning efficient and effective. As learners work with more and more varied input from the late novice stage onward, teachers can implement vocabulary learning strategies that help them notice the regularity of Russian derivational morphology (Barcroft, 2012; Comer, 2021). Teachers should also train students to use Russian word formation principles to increase their recognition vocabulary and improve their reading fluency.…”

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Exploring the lexical profile of advanced L2 writers: Longitudinal data from the Russian Overseas Flagship program

Comer

2023

The Modern Language Journal

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This study explores the lexical profile of essays written by 48 advanced learners of second language (L2) Russian who participated in the Russian Overseas Flagship, an intensive year-long study abroad program designed to help students reach Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) Level 3 proficiency in all skills. Using the lexical frequency profile and P-Lex as measures of vocabulary sophistication, the study found that over the 9 months of the program, students significantly increased their usage of words from the lowest frequency bands. This adds to previous findings that knowledge of lexical items at the 3,000-5,000 word frequency levels predicts reading proficiency at the ACTFL advanced high-superior level in Russian. However, the increase of vocabulary sophistication was not clearly correlated with improvements in the students' writing proficiency scores, as measured on the ILR scale. A qualitative analysis of the students' low-frequency vocabulary usage reveals their control of native Russian vocabulary and derivational morphology. The analyses reveal the effects of writing tasks on student vocabulary usage.

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confidence: 99%