SweLLex: Second language learners' productive vocabulary

SVALex: a CEFR-graded Lexical Resource for Swedish Foreign and Second Language Learners

The paper introduces SVALex, a lexical resource primarily aimed at learners and teachers of Swedish as a foreign and second language that describes the distribution of 15,681 words and expressions across the Common Europ…

Investigating Productive and Receptive Knowledge: A Profile for Second Language Learning

The literature frequently addresses the differences in receptive and productive vocabulary, but grammar is often left unacknowledged in second language acquisition studies. In this paper, we used two corpora to investiga…

Building an English Vocabulary Knowledge Dataset of Japanese English-as-a-Second-Language Learners Using Crowdsourcing

An Intelligent Testing Strategy for Vocabulary Assessment of Chinese Second Language Learners

Vocabulary is one of the most important parts of language competence. Testing of vocabulary knowledge is central to research on reading and language. However, it usually costs a large amount of time and human labor to bu…

Learning to Link Grammar and Encyclopedic Information of Assist ESL Learners

We introduce a system aimed at improving and expanding second language learners{'} English vocabulary. In addition to word definitions, we provide rich lexical information such as collocations and grammar patterns for ta…