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All data is as of April 28, 2025.

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Clenton Jon
Associate Professor
Affiliation Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Discipline English
Academic Degrees Swansea University PhD Applied Linguistics
Research Fields Humanities; Linguistics; Foreign language education
Research Keywords
Comments Jon conducts research on the assessment of vocabulary knowledge, second language (L2) productive vocabulary development, productive vocabulary knowledge and fluency, second language acquisition, word association studies, lexical processing, and second language assessment. He has analysed various methods for measuring productive vocabulary, focusing on isolating the specific aspect of productive vocabulary knowledge. His research has appeared in journals such as Bilingualism Language and Cognition, Tesol Quarterly, Language Testing, System, The International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, and Language Teaching and Research. He is a co-author of First Language Influences on Multilingual Lexicons (Routledge, 2020)), Vocabulary and the Four skills (Routledge, 2021), and EAL Research for the Classroom, Practical and Pedagogical Implications (Routledge, 2023),

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Currently supervising 5 PhD students:

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Investigating potential relationships between productive vocabulary knowledge and aspects of fluency (Dion Clingwall)

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Identifying Technical Vocabulary in the Agricultural Context: Establishing an Agriculture Word List
(Warren Tang)
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Exploring vocabulary knowledge growth
(Tom Stones)
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Investigating the Lexical Readiness of Japanese Junior High School Students for English Medium Instruction
(Wakako Takinami)
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Investigating fluency in dialogues
(Chris Hollis)

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Completed students:
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MWS-Fluency Relationships
(Daniel Hougham)
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Bridging the Vocabulary Gap for English as an Additional Language Learners
(Gavin Brooks)
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Investigating typical IELTS lexical profiles
(Thwin Myint Myint Maw )
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Exploring potential relationships between productive vocabulary measures, writing, and IELTS
(Yajie Li)
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Investigating the Effects of Massing and Spacing on Learning Explicit and
Tacit Vocabulary Knowledge through Flashcards
(Zheng Guangliang)
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Topic Education/School/Language
SDGs 4 Quality education 5 Gender equality 10 Reduced inequalities 17 Partnerships for the goals
Educational Programs [Bachelor Degree Program] School of Integrated Arts and Sciences : Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences : Integrated Arts and Sciences
[Master's Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program
[Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences : Division of Humanities and Social Sciences : Integrated Arts and Human Sciences Program
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