Report on a free continuous word association test
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It seems logical to suggest that developments in a learner's lexical competence would be mirrored in the number and type of associations that a learner could produce in response to a set of prompt words, such as comfort. During the early 1980s, some commentators had assumed that a test could therefore be designed to measure the state of an L2 learner's associational networks which would reflect level of proficiency. However, in 1987, a report of a free continuous word association probe was published by Kruse, Pankhurst and Sharwood-Smith in the journal Studies in Second Language Acquisition. This study compared the associations produced by a group of 15 Dutch third-year university students of English with a group of 7 native speakers of English in a test which used a specially designed software to collect up to 12 responses for each of a set of 9 stimulus words. Their responses were measured using three scoring systems: i) weighted stereotypy, ii) non-weighted stereotypy-each based on a norms list- and iii) number of responses entered. In all three measures, no significant difference between the two groups was reported. The experiment was hugely influential since it seemed to prove that the free continuous word association test (WAT) was inadequate as a proficiency measure. This paper will report on a replication of the same study wherein a group of 50 native speakers performed significantly better on average than 45 Japanese learners of English. However, it is suggested that the above conclusion may be unfounded due to the number of serious flaws in the test itself.
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