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Faculty Information Details
All data is as of May 12, 2025.
- Clenton Jon
- Associate Professor
| Affiliation | Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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| Discipline | English |
| Academic Degrees |
Swansea University PhD Applied Linguistics |
| Research Fields |
Humanities; Linguistics; Foreign language education |
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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), _______________________________________________ Currently supervising 4 PhD students: _______________________________________________ Investigating potential relationships between productive vocabulary knowledge and aspects of fluency (Dion Clingwall) _______________________________________________ Identifying Technical Vocabulary in the Agricultural Context: Establishing an Agriculture Word List (Wakako Takinami) _______________________________________________ Exploring vocabulary knowledge growth (Tom Stones) _______________________________________________ Investigating fluency in dialogues (Chris Hollis) _______________________________________________ _______________________________________________ Completed students: _______________________________________________ MWS-Fluency Relationships (Daniel Hougham) _______________________________________________ Bridging the Vocabulary Gap for English as an Additional Language Learners (Gavin Brooks) _______________________________________________ Investigating typical IELTS lexical profiles (Thwin Myint Myint Maw ) _______________________________________________ Exploring potential relationships between productive vocabulary measures, writing, and IELTS (Yajie Li) _______________________________________________ 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 |
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| 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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