C Nicklin
Biographic Data
| ID | 123913 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Nicklin |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Nicklin |
| SIGNATURE | NICKLIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rikkyo University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8945-0678 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Defining collocational congruency with expert judgment, corpus-derived frequency, and norming study data: A re-analysis of Wolter and Yamashita (2018)
Collocational congruency relates to the degree of form-meaning overlap between an L2 collocation and its L1 translation. Congruency effect research consistently shows that low-proficiency language learners respond more slowly and less accurately than their higher-proficiency counterparts to collocations that are incongruent between the L1 and L2, rendering congruency an important quality for applied psycholinguistic collocation research. However,…
Probability and Hypothesis Testing: An Update for Applied Linguists
It has been over a decade since Ross's important discussion of probability and hypothesis testing for applied linguists. In this chapter, we update his valuable discussion in three areas. First, an accessible demonstration of how probability works is presented using the well‐known “birthday problem” as the original entry assumed such knowledge on the part of the reader. When Ross wrote his chapter, Bayesian testing was only emerging in the field …
Interpreting the semi-partial correlation as a multiple regression-bound (not a bivariate) metric: A methods-oriented response to Papi and Teimouri’s (2024) response to Al-Hoorie et al. (2024)
Al-Hoorie, Hiver, and In’nami (2024) challenged the validity and corresponding validation processes of L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) research. A component of this challenge included claims of weak discriminant validity due to high correlations among L2MSS constructs. Papi and Teimouri (2024) countered by using semi-partial correlations to control for other L2MSS constructs, finding weak-to-moderate associations, which they claimed mollified…
Contrasting Fixed- and Mixed-Effects Modeling in Vocabulary Research: Reanalyzing Laufer (2024) and McLean et al. (2020)
Analyses in vocabulary research should avoid the language-as-a-fixed-effect fallacy, whereby no statistical evidence is provided to support claimed generalizations beyond the words tested in the sample. Although mixed-effects models are widely adopted in social sciences to avoid this fallacy, second language vocabulary researchers primarily conduct potentially problematic fixed-effects analyses. In the present study, two published vocabulary stud…
Establishing meaning recall and meaning recognition vocabulary knowledge as distinct psychometric constructs in relation to reading proficiency
The purpose of this paper is to (a) establish whether meaning recall and meaning recognition item formats test psychometrically distinct constructs of vocabulary knowledge which measure separate skills, and, if so, (b) determine whether each construct possesses unique properties predictive of L2 reading proficiency. Factor analyses and hierarchical regression were conducted on results derived from the two vocabulary item formats in order to test …
Willingness to Communicate, Speaking Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Communicative Competence as Predictors of Second Language Spoken Task Production
This study investigated how students' self-reported individual differences predicted second language (L2) spoken discussion task output, an objective behavioral outcome, in the Japanese university English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Although numerous psychological theories are used as a rationale for task-based language teaching (TBLT), few studies have investigated the impact of individual differences variables on task performance. To a…
Quantifying proper nouns’ influence on L2 English learners’ reading fluency
Proper nouns constitute a lexical class with special properties and are thus treated differently from other words by second language acquisition researchers. An assumption exists that even low-proficiency learners will find them unproblematic, yet research suggests this assumption might be misplaced. The present study involved two self-paced reading experiments designed to investigate proper nouns’ influence on Japanese university students’ readi…
Academic word difficulty and multidimensional lexical sophistication: An English‐for‐academic‐purposes‐focused conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert (2019)
This article presents a conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert ( https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12353 ), a study that featured multivariate models where lexical sophistication variables accounted for word difficulty (yes–no recognition) better than frequency alone among learners of English as a second or foreign language from North America. This current study ( n words = 88; n people = 128) conceptually replicated Hashimoto and Egbert with …
The contribution of affixes to productive English vocabulary knowledge for Chinese, German and Spanish learners: A comparison
Effect Size–driven Sample-Size Planning, Randomization, and Multisite Use in L2 Instructed Vocabulary Acquisition Experimental Samples
In this focused methodological synthesis, the sample construction procedures of 110 second language (L2) instructed vocabulary interventions were assessed in relation to effect size–driven sample-size planning, randomization, and multisite usage. These three areas were investigated because inferential testing makes better generalizations when researchers consider them during the sample construction process. Only nine reports used effect sizes to …
Effect‐Driven Sample Sizes in Second Language Instructed Vocabulary Acquisition Research
The present study involved the analysis of 81 second language instructed vocabulary acquisition (L2 IVA) studies over 2 phases. In Phase I, we categorized and coded the effect sizes of the studies. Observing that the basic between‐ and within‐subject design dichotomy lacked the sensitivity to capture the heterogeneity of observed effects, we employed a more granular approach. In both between‐ and within‐subject designs, treatment versus compariso…
Ecology of Increasing Diseases: Population Growth and Environmental Degradation
Ecology of Increasing Diseases: Population Growth and Environmental Degradation
Willingness to Communicate, Speaking Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Communicative Competence as Predictors of Second Language Spoken Task Production
This study investigated how students' self-reported individual differences predicted second language (L2) spoken discussion task output, an objective behavioral outcome, in the Japanese university English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Although numerous psychological theories are used as a rationale for task-based language teaching (TBLT), few studies have investigated the impact of individual differences variables on task performance. To a…
Ecology of Increasing Diseases: Population Growth and Environmental Degradation
Effect‐Driven Sample Sizes in Second Language Instructed Vocabulary Acquisition Research
The present study involved the analysis of 81 second language instructed vocabulary acquisition (L2 IVA) studies over 2 phases. In Phase I, we categorized and coded the effect sizes of the studies. Observing that the basic between‐ and within‐subject design dichotomy lacked the sensitivity to capture the heterogeneity of observed effects, we employed a more granular approach. In both between‐ and within‐subject designs, treatment versus compariso…
Effect Size–driven Sample-Size Planning, Randomization, and Multisite Use in L2 Instructed Vocabulary Acquisition Experimental Samples
In this focused methodological synthesis, the sample construction procedures of 110 second language (L2) instructed vocabulary interventions were assessed in relation to effect size–driven sample-size planning, randomization, and multisite usage. These three areas were investigated because inferential testing makes better generalizations when researchers consider them during the sample construction process. Only nine reports used effect sizes to …
Quantifying proper nouns’ influence on L2 English learners’ reading fluency
Proper nouns constitute a lexical class with special properties and are thus treated differently from other words by second language acquisition researchers. An assumption exists that even low-proficiency learners will find them unproblematic, yet research suggests this assumption might be misplaced. The present study involved two self-paced reading experiments designed to investigate proper nouns’ influence on Japanese university students’ readi…
Academic word difficulty and multidimensional lexical sophistication: An English‐for‐academic‐purposes‐focused conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert (2019)
This article presents a conceptual replication of Hashimoto and Egbert ( https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12353 ), a study that featured multivariate models where lexical sophistication variables accounted for word difficulty (yes–no recognition) better than frequency alone among learners of English as a second or foreign language from North America. This current study ( n words = 88; n people = 128) conceptually replicated Hashimoto and Egbert with …
The contribution of affixes to productive English vocabulary knowledge for Chinese, German and Spanish learners: A comparison
Establishing meaning recall and meaning recognition vocabulary knowledge as distinct psychometric constructs in relation to reading proficiency
The purpose of this paper is to (a) establish whether meaning recall and meaning recognition item formats test psychometrically distinct constructs of vocabulary knowledge which measure separate skills, and, if so, (b) determine whether each construct possesses unique properties predictive of L2 reading proficiency. Factor analyses and hierarchical regression were conducted on results derived from the two vocabulary item formats in order to test …
Willingness to Communicate, Speaking Self-Efficacy, and Perceived Communicative Competence as Predictors of Second Language Spoken Task Production
This study investigated how students' self-reported individual differences predicted second language (L2) spoken discussion task output, an objective behavioral outcome, in the Japanese university English as a Foreign Language (EFL) context. Although numerous psychological theories are used as a rationale for task-based language teaching (TBLT), few studies have investigated the impact of individual differences variables on task performance. To a…
Probability and Hypothesis Testing: An Update for Applied Linguists
It has been over a decade since Ross's important discussion of probability and hypothesis testing for applied linguists. In this chapter, we update his valuable discussion in three areas. First, an accessible demonstration of how probability works is presented using the well‐known “birthday problem” as the original entry assumed such knowledge on the part of the reader. When Ross wrote his chapter, Bayesian testing was only emerging in the field …
Interpreting the semi-partial correlation as a multiple regression-bound (not a bivariate) metric: A methods-oriented response to Papi and Teimouri’s (2024) response to Al-Hoorie et al. (2024)
Al-Hoorie, Hiver, and In’nami (2024) challenged the validity and corresponding validation processes of L2 Motivational Self System (L2MSS) research. A component of this challenge included claims of weak discriminant validity due to high correlations among L2MSS constructs. Papi and Teimouri (2024) countered by using semi-partial correlations to control for other L2MSS constructs, finding weak-to-moderate associations, which they claimed mollified…
Contrasting Fixed- and Mixed-Effects Modeling in Vocabulary Research: Reanalyzing Laufer (2024) and McLean et al. (2020)
Analyses in vocabulary research should avoid the language-as-a-fixed-effect fallacy, whereby no statistical evidence is provided to support claimed generalizations beyond the words tested in the sample. Although mixed-effects models are widely adopted in social sciences to avoid this fallacy, second language vocabulary researchers primarily conduct potentially problematic fixed-effects analyses. In the present study, two published vocabulary stud…
Defining collocational congruency with expert judgment, corpus-derived frequency, and norming study data: A re-analysis of Wolter and Yamashita (2018)
Collocational congruency relates to the degree of form-meaning overlap between an L2 collocation and its L1 translation. Congruency effect research consistently shows that low-proficiency language learners respond more slowly and less accurately than their higher-proficiency counterparts to collocations that are incongruent between the L1 and L2, rendering congruency an important quality for applied psycholinguistic collocation research. However,…
Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Vocabulary (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Statistics (4 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (3 works)