CEFR Vocabulary Level as a Predictor of User Interest in English Wiktionary Entries

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dc.bibliographicCitation.issue1
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume11
dc.contributor.authorLew, Robert
dc.contributor.authorWolfer, Sascha
dc.date.accessioned2025-03-14T17:45:37Z
dc.date.available2025-03-14T17:45:37Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-01-28T05:41:09Z
dc.description.abstractThis contribution explores the relationship between the English CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) vocabulary levels and user interest in English Wiktionary entries. User interest was operationalized through the number of views of these entries in Wikimedia server logs covering a period of four years (2019–2022). Our findings reveal a significant relationship between CEFR levels and user interest: entries classified at lower CEFR levels tend to attract more views, which suggests a greater user interest in more basic vocabulary. A multiple regression model controlling for other known or potential factors affecting interest: corpus frequency, polysemy, word prevalence, and age of acquisition confirmed that lower CEFR levels attract significantly more views even after taking into account the other predictors. These findings highlight the importance of CEFR levels in predicting which words users are likely to look up, with implications for lexicography and the development of language learning materials.
dc.identifier.doi10.1057/s41599-024-02838-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/3444
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.journalHumanities and Social Sciences Communications
dc.rightsL::CC BY 4.0
dc.subject.ddcddc:371.3
dc.subject.ddcddc:420
dc.subject.fieldlinguistics
dc.subject.fielddigitalhumanities
dc.subject.fieldenglishlanguageteaching
dc.titleCEFR Vocabulary Level as a Predictor of User Interest in English Wiktionary Entries
dc.typearticle
dc.type.versionpublishedVersion
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